A Fox News segment erupted when anchor Trace Gallagher locked horns with Jessica Tarlov over the Democrat Party’s double standards.
The pair got into a heated debate as the discussion focused on former Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner, who ended his race against incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins after multiple scandals and an allegation of sexual assault.
“I would say this: not only were they covering for him — and you talked about red lines…they were literally calling him not just ‘oh, bad guy, I’ve got some problems.’ They were calling him a ‘man of values’ until the sexual allegations came out,” Gallagher said in a panel discussion on Wednesday as he highlighted the left’s selective outrage.
Pretty incredible that the Democrat argument has devolved to “yeah, we are awful, but you’re awful to, so you can’t criticize us for being awful.”
A far cry from the moral authority they once claimed to have. https://t.co/S3ZcR9PAx9
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 9, 2026
“I have never called Graham Platner that,” Tarlov objected.
“I didn’t say you did, but the Democratic Party was calling him a man of values,” Gallagher noted.
“I’m the one who’s sitting here talking to you about how the average Democrat I talk to — and certainly people within the larger party infrastructure — were always uncomfortable with Graham Platner and his behaviors,” Tarlov claimed.
“I will say, though, something that has not changed since we heard from Jenny Racicot: the Democrats will not be lectured by the party of Donald Trump and Ken Paxton,” she sneered, prompting a quick reaction from Gallagher.
“No, you can make the face, Max Miller — and say that we’re the bad guys who are flipping standards, or that we’re going to be told from on high about what good behavior is when it comes to how women are treated and questions of abuse. That is a non-starter here,” she argued. “We want to win the Senate. We are in a good position…But all roads have to go through Maine. We need a strong candidate there, and my hope is that we will get that.”
Gallagher then dropped a reality check on the Fox News host.
“Except it’s very emblematic of the Democratic Party to continue to say — regardless of staying on topic, regardless of what the issue is, regardless of anything — ‘no way, it’s all Trump.’ ‘It’s Trump.’ ‘Well, remember Trump.’ And how can you say, I just also said Max Miller, I talked about, but it’s an interesting thing when it kind of goes back to: let’s just talk about the topic at hand,” he said.
“I mean, that’s the whole thing. And I think an important part of this is the covering-up continuing,” he added.
Social media users blasted Tarlov and Democrats for their hypocrisy.
Blind to dementia, blind to a Totenkopf tattoo, deaf to abuse allegations – and then they lecture everyone else about moral judgment. This is a party led by people who are politically deaf, blind, and dumb until the optics become impossible to manage.
— Jonathan Hale (@jonathan2hale) July 9, 2026
Actually the Republicans do get to take the high road
— Chance Buchman (@ChanceBuchman) July 9, 2026
Just finished my victory lap. You don’t make the rules
— Lucky Sock (@LuckySock3) July 9, 2026
Republicans don’t need to take a victory lap they just sit back watching and laughing as you clowns promote the most pathetic candidates possible.
— Danny Boy (@DannyBoyGriffin) July 9, 2026
You are the party of Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, and Bill Clinton… nothing more needs to be said. You’ve never had any moral high ground.
— Kimberly Morin (@Conservativeind) July 9, 2026
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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