We knew this was coming; we just weren't sure from whom. Appearing as a guest on Katy Tur's show on MS NOW, New York Times columnist Charles Blow assured us that he took the sexual assault allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner very seriously and wanted to hear more from his accuser. But, echoing Jill Filipovic's claim that Democrats see credible rape allegations as disqualifying, while Republicans "continue to have a nearly unlimited tolerance for abusing women," Donald Trump was elected after being found civilly liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, and Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice after we all heard Christine Blasey Ford's "compelling testimony" that she had been raped.
NYT columnist Charles Blow DEFENDS Graham Platner staying in the race after the Politico story alleging sexual assault, arguing the GOP has stuck behind Kavanaugh despite Blasey Ford’s “compelling testimony” that “she was raped”....
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 6, 2026
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… situations like this is that sounds horrible and we deserve to hear her more of her case if she wants to pursue other actions. I think she should be encouraged to do that, and we should wait to hear more of her case. But the second thing I want to say is that we continue to have a situation where Democrats and Republicans are playing by completely separate, separate rulebooks. The idea that this would push him out of the race, maybe that's the right thing to do. But, you know, Donald Trump was found liable of sexually abusing a woman, and then eight months later, a separate jury found him guilty of liable for defamation of her, and then ten months after that, he was still elected. Christine Blasey Ford gave, I thought, compelling testimony against Brett Kavanaugh about what she said — she was raped. He was still confirmed by Republicans in the Senate. We are just on two different ball fields when it comes to cases like this, situations like this in politics.”
Reminder that there was no evidence Kavanaugh even met Ford and zero corroboration of her piss poor "recollection" of the alleged events. https://t.co/VgNyDayNke
— Boo (@IzaBooboo) July 6, 2026
Enough. Christine Blasey Ford never said she was raped. Any lawyers out there? It's time to sure Charles Blow. Enough. https://t.co/WPn5tvT6BU
— Mark Judge (@markgjudge) July 6, 2026
But Democratic senators accused Kavanaugh of drugging the punch at parties and setting up gang rape rooms in high school.
Do these people even pay attention to what actually happened or do they just construct a narrative in their brains?
— Q (@Quirk22) July 6, 2026
I am going to assume his fellow cast members asked him for an example connecting "compelling testimony" with "evidence", correct?
— Blad (@tlindblad) July 6, 2026
There is to this day no evidence that Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh were ever in the same room. Platner's accuser is a former girlfriend. Huge difference. Only a putz would argue that's equivalent.
— Jules! (@sparkly_jules1) July 7, 2026
Ford was not a credible witness and there was no evidence of her claims. @nytimes Blow’s assertions are ridiculous and false.
— GBtablereads2 (@GBTablereads2) July 7, 2026
If he thinks Ford had any credibility, there's no argument that can dissuade him
— Keith Maniac, from Guatemala (@from_maniac) July 6, 2026
Blasey never even claimed she was raped. But I guess “we’re on two different ball fields”?
— Chris Casper (@tampacasper) July 7, 2026
Ford’s testimony against Kavanaugh was empty, devoid of any substantiation and conflicting with verifiable facts. Even her friends backed away from her. Certainly, Mr. Blow knows this. His only foundation appears to be that he firmly *wishes* that her allegations were true.
— Bob Beasley (@13013B) July 6, 2026
That's why they (the marketing team and their party of choice) have worked so hard to keep the messages around Kavanaugh and Trump on repeat. So they can justify anything they do. Pure evil.
— COYSRTR (@CoysRtr) July 7, 2026
We have evidence that Platner actually met the woman he is alleged to have assaulted. Ms Ford never supplied ANY corroborating evidence that she met Kavanaugh other than her own memory.
— Via Media⚓ (@ztech1001) July 7, 2026
The difference that this cretin won't acknowledge is she has evidence, both from her therapist and close friends, that this incident occurred. Blasey-Ford didn't even know why year the alleged assaults happened. Charles can blow it out his ass.
— MarkInSavannah⚔️⚓️🏴☠️ (@MarkInSavannah1) July 6, 2026
@CharlesMBlow is not aware that there were ZERO people willing to corroborate Blasey Ford’s testimony? Would this so called journalist publish a story without a second source?
— Jon Bassoff (@CoachJEB18) July 7, 2026
Oh for fuck sake there was not one shred of evidence of Kavanaugh doing anything unseemly. There is tons of hard evidence against Platner.
— LindaRN (@LindaG_RN) July 7, 2026
She didn't even say she was raped. She said he got handsy and belligerent and then backed off.
— Robert Karnes (@SenatorKarnes) July 7, 2026
And had zero evidence to support even that.
Ford was a transparent liar who had no evidence to support her bs. The woman who Platner attacked gave NYT corroborating evidence that they chose not to report. She has numerous time stamped written evidence as well.
— Call Your Congressman (@charlimithinks) July 7, 2026
It's the same rulebook, Charles. Dems in fall of 2018 were hoping to flip the Senate, and were expecting Trump to pull the Kavanaugh nomination with Ford's allegations. He chose to have Kavanaugh defend himself.
— Barry Francis (@BarryFromCC) July 7, 2026
Let's see if the DSA trusts Platner to do the same.
Again with the "two different ball fields" claim. Platner has denied the compelling testimony against him; why are so many Democrats abandoning him instead of defending him like Blow?
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