BREAKING NEWS: Graham Platner Issues Video Statement After Allegation Of Sexual Assault Emerges

[Uncle Joe]

In a video released to social media on Monday, candidate for Maine's Senate seat Graham Platner (D-ME) addressed allegations of sexual assault against him.

[WSHazel]

1. Platner doesn't get to take time

He needs to drop out of the race right now.

[somaticexperiencing]

22. Republicans somehow can hold power while lying unconscious in bed or in the minority in Congress. I'm for what wins

elections, and Platner speaks well and makes good points. Should he drop out? Should Al Franken have dropped out? I'm not even going to get into it. I believe we must be moral and ethical and I believe we must win. Susan Collins has got to go. May the very best, highest common good choices be made, for the sake of everybody.

[Intractable]

2. He doesn't address much here. More like a 'look over there' strategy.

Maybe he can't address what he does not remember.

Perhaps he can only deny it.

[Mysterian]

10. He clearly denied the allegations in his first two sentences

Maybe you missed that part.

[Intractable]

23. As I said, he didn't address much.

Maybe you missed that part.

[in2herbs]

3. IMO Ds should do everything to elect him to get the Dvotes we need to fix this country and after that they can kick him

to the curb by expelling him from Congress.

[Emile]

4. Thank you Uncle Joe. The Ratfuckering

continues.

[ashredux]

5. Well, a classic, she said, he said..... I'm afraid I believe her.

[Mysterian]

12. Why?

Looks like a classic case of republican rat-fucking to me.

[EdmondDantes_]

15. Please explain why she told multiple people in 2023 years before he ran for anything

Why is it so hard to believe a man who has blamed women for rape, who admits he mistreated multiple women he was in relationships with, and was sexting outside his marriage right after getting married and was regularly drinking heavily could have sexually assaulted a woman, especially when that woman has multiple outcry witnesses?

Being a Democrat isn't some sort of guarantee of actually respecting women. We still live in a patriarchy.

[Bluestocking]

6. If I lived in Maine

He would have my support. No one on DU should be allowed to disparage this guy.

[LisaL]

8. Are you kidding me?

[Bluestocking]

16. No I am not kidding you

The Democratic Party needs to take control of the house and senate. They must for the sake of our Democracy. Yes things are that bad and I am willing to give Platner the benefit of the doubt. Why is this coming out now and not 6 months or a year ago. Sorry very suspect to me. We are watching our democracy disappear before our eyes. 2028 will be too late.

Enough already with attacking our own. We as a party can not survive attacks from within and from the other side.

[ColoringFool]

18. Why now? That's the best ya got---timing? Maybe because a public.....

statement of having been sexually assaulted is not one a woman agrees to while hope exists that your attacker might not be close to a political victory.

Me, I'm suspicious of autopilot defenders.

[Uncle Joe]

20. Possibly because July 13th is the deadline for Graham to withdraw if he chooses to do so,

making it a primary version of an "October Surprise."

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Despite winning the Democratic primary in Maine last month, Senate candidate Graham Platner could be off the ballot in November after a Politico story published on Monday detailed a woman accusing him of sexual assault.

July 13 is the deadline for Platner to withdraw from the race and have a replacement, according to the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices.

The deadline for the Maine Democratic Party to replace their nominee on the ballot is July 27, in accordance with a state law that says a party has until 5 p.m. EDT on the fourth Monday in July of an election year to do so.

“The name of a candidate for an office on the general election ballot who withdraws for any reason 70 days or more before the general election must be removed from the ballot,” Maine law states.

(snip)

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5955769-graham-platner-accused-sexual-assault/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. The Maine Democratic Party is asking him to withdraw. It's over.

[ColoringFool]

19. Don't worry; Chuck Schumer isn't here. 😆😅🤣🤣😅😅😆

[-misanthroptimist]

21. I live in Maine

He tentatively has my support until or unless all the evidence comes in.

If he stays the nominee, he'll get my vote no matter what.

[oasis]

7. Guilty or not, this is a terrible situation.

[LisaL]

9. Anybody could tell where this nomination was going.

But no, we are supposed to ignore everything he did before he decided to run.

[oasis]

17. I'm deflated right now. The Maine seat is crucial.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. The Maine Democratic Party calls on Graham Planter to drop out of the Senate race.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

14. Christ almighty Graham. just drop out already

And I hope the lady files charges and gets some justice