00:00Today, I'm going to explain how the fallout from a controversy in the US Senate race in Maine
00:05could affect the career of at least one California politician.
00:09Congressman Ro Khanna, a Democrat, has represented Silicon Valley for the better part of a decade.
00:14Ro Khanna is also trying to run for president. And although he has cast himself as a moderate
00:20in the past, at least in terms of his willingness to talk to Republicans and conservatives and to
00:25go on Fox News, he is now styling himself as a flame breathing left winger. And as part of that
00:33repackaging, he has gone all in for Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Plattner, who has been
00:40running for Senate in Maine. Plattner has a very colorful and controversial past. He has a Nazi
00:46tattoo associated with the SS. That was the part of the Nazi regime responsible for the mass murder
00:53at the death camps across Nazi-occupied Europe. He has also made a variety of controversial comments
00:59online about veterans, about women, and he has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct by some of
01:05his former colleagues and romantic partners. Through it all, Khanna stuck with Plattner right up until
01:11recently when a new accusation emerged in Politico by one of Plattner's former girlfriends that he had
01:18raped her. Khanna then withdrew his endorsement. But he had tied his brand so tightly to Plattner that
01:24it might be too late for him to wash clean the stain of the Plattner affair. Plus, it does raise
01:29questions about his judgment and about his honesty. It was Khanna who took the lead in pressing for the
01:35Jeffrey Epstein files to be fully released, and he even accused several individuals on the floor of
01:40the House of Representatives from being connected to Jeffrey Epstein, even some people who had nothing to
01:45do with Epstein at all. So, Khanna made fighting sexual predators his brand and then stuck with Plattner
01:50right up until the very end. It's going to raise questions about whether he can serve as commander-in-chief.
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