Dems Ditch Platner Over Rape Claims
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Six weeks ago Graham Platner was the future of the Democratic Party. He had the tattoo controversy, the veteran cred, the oyster farmer authenticity that made every profile writer swoon. Now he has a rape accusation from a named woman who gave the same account to Politico and CNN, and the same party apparatus that couldn't stop talking about him has gone silent or worse.
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Democrats nationwide have bailed on embattled Maine Senate Democratic candidate Graham Platner after a bombshell report accused the leftist oyster farmer of rape. Politico interviewed 41-year-old Maine resident Jenny Racicot, who accused Platner of breaking into her house in 2021 and sexually assaulting her.
In a one-two punch, CNN released an interview with Racicot, who
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Six weeks ago Graham Platner was the future of the Democratic Party. He had the tattoo controversy, the veteran cred, the oyster farmer authenticity that made every profile writer swoon. Now he has a rape accusation from a named woman who gave the same account to Politico and CNN, and the same party apparatus that couldn't stop talking about him has gone silent or worse.
Notice the sequence. It wasn't the accusation itself that moved anyone. It was two outlets publishing it within days of each other, which made ignoring it impossible. That's not accountability, that's damage control on a timer.
We'd like to believe a serious allegation gets taken seriously the moment it surfaces, not the moment it becomes a liability nobody can spin away. Maine Democrats spent months building this guy up as a symbol. Now he's an inconvenience to be dropped quietly, and the same operatives who vetted him apparently never asked the obvious question about what was in his past.
If a woman's account only matters once it threatens a Senate seat, it never really mattered at all.
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