As of the time I am writing this, Graham Platner is still running for Senate in Maine.
He has a week to decide whether to stay in the race, because if he drops out after July 13th, the Democrats wouldn't be allowed to put anybody else on the ballot to replace him.
Incredible pic.twitter.com/bsUDUMoUuJ
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 6, 202
As Beege wrote yesterday, Platner had canceled all his campaign appearances in preparation for the explosive POLITICO story in which a former girlfriend accused him of raping her during their relationship. She had originally refrained from coming forward both because she didn't want to face the inevitable scrutiny and social stigma that inevitably comes from going public, but she changed her mind after watching so many people attack Lindsey Fifield, the subject of an earlier scandalous story in which she accused him of being physically abusive:
Racicot previously described “reckless” and “unsettling” behavior by Platner to The New York Times, but says she didn’t go public with the specific assault claim because she didn’t want to be known as a rape victim.
Racicot said she later felt compelled to go public about her experience because the reaction to the Times story was dominated by controversy about another woman, Lyndsey Fifield, who alleged Platner mistreated her and faced attacks because of her ties to the Republican Party. (Contacted by POLITICO, Fifield stood by the allegations she made to the Times and declined to comment further.)
“My part of the story was just a read-over,” Racicot said in an interview. “And the story was Lyndsey, and the accusations of her being politically motivated.”
Racicot said she was torn over coming forward in part because she agrees with Platner politically.
“One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,” she said. “I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”
Platner says that the allegations are false, and that he is taking time to decide whether to stay in the race.
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) July 6, 2026
The rape story is, as you would expect, appalling. I'm not going to go into the particulars in depth, and if you want to read the whole sordid story, you can follow the link above. If Graham Platner weren't the candidate whom the entire Democratic Party had rallied around, despite everybody already knowing he was a sick puppy, it wouldn't be a national story.
Politico: "Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her"
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 6, 2026
Is this what Elizabeth Warren meant when she said "Graham Platner is the fighter we need"? https://t.co/71Ut3wMalc pic.twitter.com/u7eBfZX0in
What makes it of interest is what it says about the Democratic Party today, and how far off the rails it has gone. Graham Platner wore a Nazi tattoo for 18 years. His hobby, before getting into the race, was training transgender people at the Socialist Rifle Club of Maine on how to storm buildings with assault rifles. He derided women, blamed them for their own rapes, and declared himself a communist.
Graham Platner's Reddit posts blaming rape victims can HELP Dems "win back... the young men we've lost," his handler, @katz_morris, told @davidaxelrod.
— Joel Mowbray (@joelmowbray) June 1, 2026
Why? It shows Platner is "one of them" & a "real person."
Katz is a top Dem strategist.
This is what he thinks of young men. https://t.co/iA1Y2AOuN4 pic.twitter.com/zM10gUXY73
And the Democrats loved him. They claimed his flaws made him authentic. Never Trumpers floated him as a presidential candidate. Ro Khanna, who is obviously running for president, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders embraced him after all these facts came out. And his political advisor, Morris Katz, was named a Democratic Party Wunderkind.
Haven't seen Nazis and Communists get along this well since the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. https://t.co/bE0YHT76HY
— Holden (@Holden114) May 26, 2026
It would be one thing if the Democrats didn't already know that Platner was profoundly flawed, but they all did. Perhaps they didn't know all the specifics, but then again, all the specifics they did know would and should have been disqualifying. Not only for the politicians who flocked to support him, but for the voters who chose him over an almost equally progressive Janet Mills.
Chuck Schumer and other high-profile Democrats have disgracefully stood behind Graham Platner, who:
— RJC (@RJC) July 6, 2026
Boosted a Holocaust denier.
Slandered Israel as “genocidal”.
Kept a hideous Nazi SS concentration camp guard tattoo emblazoned on his chest for 18 years, because it reminded… https://t.co/55iParN4f9 pic.twitter.com/WQvh0GNiGS
The difference? Platner was the DSA-chosen candidate, and the DSA now runs the Democratic Party, if not in name, then in everything else that matters.
Odds Ro Kahanna walks back his active support for accused rapist Graham Platner? pic.twitter.com/Yh2Ut6Gw5C
— Gideon Askowitz (@Gideon_Askowitz) July 6, 2026
Democrats are campaigning with Hasan Piker. Kamala Harris is reaching out to Zohran Mamdani. Full-blown communists who openly say that they want to destroy America and Western Civilization are winning Democratic primaries.
Where are the Democratic Party leaders willing to stand up and say "No?"
Update: The limb was, in fact, sawn off. pic.twitter.com/hAECkThstc
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 6, 2026
None of this is coming out of the blue. You'd be an idiot not to know that Platner was poison? Ro Khanna even said he believed Platner's accusers. And didn't care.
The politico story confirms that the NYT writers had the details of the sexual assault but chose to omit them and instead focus their article overwhelmingly on the claims from LF so that they can just be spun as a partisan attack.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 6, 2026
Would be interested to see the communication… https://t.co/IYByTM51Jq pic.twitter.com/Vm3bMGznsb
Something is deeply wrong with the Democratic Party.
Statement from Maine Democratic Party Leadership on Allegations Against Graham Platner pic.twitter.com/dzPDFOck9X
— Maine Democrats (@MaineDems) July 6, 2026
If Platner decides to leave the race, as seems very possible, the Democrats will face a dilemma: Platner was the DSA candidate, and they won't be happy to see the Democratic establishment pull a Kamala Harris. Chances are pretty good that they would choose to put Governor Janet Mills onto the ballot, and while she would normally have been a good choice, it's likely that she will be viewed as tainted by the radical wing of the party.
They chose to get themselves into this mess, just as they chose to cover up for Biden until they were forced to get him out of the race.
It didn't have to be this way. They chose to make it so.
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