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LEADER-CHIVEE: “You know, I certainly appreciate his wife wanting to stand up for him, but I mean, come on, it’s politics. What do you think is going to happen? Of course, everything is fair game, and of course, people’s character and their behavior and their treatment of women matters. And is there a double standard in the parties? One hundred percent there is, because of — I don’t even have to begin to explain the double standards when it comes to the president of the United States. But Democrats have been trying to walk, to be — to take the moral high ground and to run candidates that don’t have these kinds of deep, moral, and personal problems. And by the way, it was — it was a long shot to begin with, to think that Democrats were going to take out Susan Collins. She’s been there since 1996. The polls are wrong every single cycle. She has extraordinary resilience. And by the way, she knows the district incredibly well. She has served the people of Maine. Like her or not, Democrats dream of taking her out. I didn’t think it was especially realistic to begin with, regardless of who was running. And now you have this very problematic guy. And I — I will say as a Democrat, I find it really problematic when we stand by people who do not — you know, who do not pass muster when it comes to some basic judgment and moral values. And we stand by them because they’re on our side. How is that different than Republicans doing the same thing? I — I find it really problematic.”