The walls are closing in on Graham Platner. The Maine Democrat once hailed as his party’s fresh-faced Senate savior is watching his campaign disintegrate in real time — and this time the wreckage is an accusation no talking point can spin away. Platner stands accused of breaking into a woman’s home and sexually assaulting her, Breitbart reports, citing a Politico account of the allegation.
The accuser, 41-year-old Jenny Racicot, told Politico she and Platner had been in an “on-and-off relationship” when, in 2021, he showed up at her rural Maine home uninvited and intoxicated one night — after she had specifically asked him not to come — and “forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop.” “I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” Racicot said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.'”
It isn’t the first red flag. As Breitbart reported in June, several women — Racicot among them — described troubling encounters with Platner to the New York Times. Lyndsey Fifield told the paper he “could be rough with her,” recounting an argument in which “he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side.” Let that sink in: this is the man Democrats were building a Senate campaign around.
Platner denies all of it. In a video posted to X, he said he “wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me,” insisting that “any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false.” But the political class isn’t waiting for a verdict. His campaign abruptly canceled events all weekend, and the Washington Reporter — citing a well-placed source — says Platner is expected to drop out of the Maine Senate race this week. Even his own side is sprinting for the exits.
Notice the pattern. The same Democratic apparatus that demands every accusation be believed the instant it’s aimed at a Republican has gone conspicuously quiet now that the accused wears its own colors. Platner has yet to release his second-quarter fundraising totals — a tell, the Washington Reporter noted, that he may have badly underperformed even before this broke.
This is a window into what happens when a party crowns a candidate for his vibes and his tattoos instead of vetting the man underneath. The rising star they sold to Maine voters is collapsing under his own record, and the allies who propped him up are the first ones running away. Voters deserved the truth long before the cameras forced it out.
Source: breitbart.com