Sorry, gonna have to tap on the sign here. That voters didn't care at all about him being a literal professional torturer at Abu Ghraib should tell you that American voters do not care about anything like this.
Tara Reade got completely smeared and had zero impact on Biden's campaign. It's not about scamming the voters at all with this stuff, it's purely about who the party establishment wants to support or capsize.
The political class doesn't care about assault, they care about their centrist caucus. If Platner was a Zionist running against a DSA candidate, the entirety of the US media machine would be tripping over themselves to discredit the accuser right now.
This is not defense of Platner, I don't think he should have even been permitted to announce his candidacy in the first place and Ryan Grim should find himself in the woodshed for propping him up.