Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign is in hot water again after new allegations of sexual misconduct were reported Monday. Now his campaign against Susan Collins hangs by a very thin thread.
Platner issued a two-minute video response on Monday afternoon in light of a new report from Politico. In the report a woman, described as someone who once dated Platner, accused him of “sexual assault.”
‘Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement.’
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In the video, Platner denied the allegations against him, calling them “troubling, serious, and false,” adding that “any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false.”
The progressive Democrat spent the beginning of the video praising the movement his candidacy built and “the largest volunteer base in the history
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