Maine Democrat Party, Schumer Call On Platner To Drop Out
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Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner was accused of sexual assault by an ex-girlfriend.
Platner denies the allegations.
A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.
Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
Top Democrats are now calling for him to drop out.
Both Chuck Schumer and the Maine Democratic Party have called on him to drop out.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the leadership of the Maine Democratic Party urged Senate nominee Graham Platner to drop out of the race Monday, after a bombshell Politico report accusing Platner of sexual assault.
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The Maine Democratic Party urged Platner to withdraw as the nominee Monday.
Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who chairs the powerful Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, also called on Platner to “immediately withdraw” from the race in a joint statement.
“The DSCC will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot,” Schumer and Gillibrand said.
According to the New York Times, Platner has not decided if he will drop out yet.
NEW: Platner has not made a decision on dropping out — and no guarantee he does, according to a person familiar with internal campaign discussions.
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