Rep. Seth Moulton walked into an event on June 24, spotted a reporter with a phone camera, got in his face, and knocked the device out of his hand. The phone hit the ground. The whole thing was captured on video.

The question that triggered it: "Do you endorse Graham Platner in Maine?"

Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat currently challenging incumbent Sen. Ed Markey in the primary, didn't just lose his composure — he workshopped his tantrum into a campaign message. As David Strom reported at Hot Air, the video posted by RNC Research shows Moulton approaching the reporter, getting inches from the camera, and demanding, "Who are you to be asking this question?" He then appeared to swat the phone away, adding, "You gotta do a better job of hanging onto your phone."

The reporter was identified by Moulton's campaign as being affiliated with America Rising, a conservative opposition research PAC. His communications director, Taylor Hebble, issued a statement that skipped the apology and went straight to spin: "It's not surprising that Fox is too scared to invite Seth back on their shows, but they're happy to pay a MAGA tracker with America Rising to harass him at multiple events."

Fox News responded with a single sentence: "FOX News has never paid a tracker to attend an event."

Moulton himself took to X to double down. "I'm not going to apologize for how much MAGA pisses me off," he wrote. "I'll take them on anywhere, anytime, and I won't back down. If this tracker can't handle a reality check or hold onto his own equipment, that's on him."

The question about Graham Platner isn't random. Platner won Maine's Democratic Senate primary despite a chest tattoo resembling the Nazi SS Totenkopf — the Death's Head symbol. He claims he got it in 2007 in Croatia without knowing its meaning and later covered it up. But deleted Reddit posts surfaced showing Platner identifying as a "communist," writing "all cops are bastards," and making derogatory statements about rural white Americans. Multiple ex-girlfriends accused him of threatening behavior. He admitted to sexting women while married. He's running against Sen. Susan Collins.

Moulton previously told CNN that Platner "clearly made a mistake" with the tattoo but "owned that mistake" and it was "not disqualifying." So the question of whether he endorses Platner heading into the general election is, by any journalistic standard, legitimate.

Fox News anchor John Roberts had one word for the video: "Yikes."

The Mediaite headline read "Dem Lawmaker Goes Nuts." The incident made every major conservative outlet within hours. Moulton's own defense — that he physically confronted someone because "MAGA pisses me off" — is now the centerpiece of every story about his Senate campaign.

A congressman running for Senate knocked a reporter's phone to the ground on camera, blamed the reporter for not gripping it tightly enough, then posted about it like it was a campaign highlight reel. His staff called the reporter a "tracker." Fox News said they never paid one. The video shows what it shows.

That's the guy who wants to represent Massachusetts in the United States Senate.