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Fetterman compares Dems' defense of 'tacky and gross' Platner to disgraced ex-lawmaker

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., isn’t going to bat for Graham Platner as his Democratic colleagues tip-toe around the embattled candidate’s growing list of scandals. The lawmaker compared Democrats’ willingness to support, or at least not disavow, Platner’s actions to the same support for disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who resigned from Congress earlier this year over allegations of rape and sexual assault. "I'm saying that the last time Democrats leaned in on a guy that was sending, you know, [these] kinds of messages to women, I think that was like Swalwell, you know," Fetterman...