The walls finally caved in on Graham Platner — and true to form, the accused rapist walked away from his Maine Senate campaign refusing to admit he did anything wrong.
Platner suspended his campaign Wednesday, days after his ex-girlfriend Jenny Racicot went public with a bombshell allegation that he drunkenly raped her at her Maine home back in 2021 despite her repeated pleas to stop, the New York Post reports. “We believe that for the movement to continue, it can’t be me. And for that reason we are suspending campaign operations,” Platner said in a video announcement — never once acknowledging the woman he’s accused of assaulting.
Racicot didn’t mince words describing what happened. She told Politico that an “almost blackout drunk” Platner let himself into her home uninvited, followed her into the bedroom despite her objections, and forced himself on her. “I just realized that, like, I am in a situation where there’s no consent here,” she said. Asked point blank by CNN whether she was alleging rape, Racicot answered: “By definition, yes, absolutely yes.”
The allegation was enough to finally spook Democratic leadership after months of them looking the other way. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued a joint statement calling the claims “incredibly disturbing” and demanding Platner “immediately withdraw,” warning the DSCC wouldn’t invest another dime in Maine while he stayed on the ballot. Notice how fast the party discovered its conscience — only after the political math stopped working.
Platner, for his part, brushed off the mounting pile of accusations against him as “politically motivated.” That’s become his go-to line: a second ex-girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield, separately accused him of twisting her arm behind her back, trapping her in a room, and repeatedly removing his condom during sex without her knowledge. “He would pull condoms off,” Fifield told the Washington Post. “He would do it in a sneaky way. He wouldn’t tell me.” Platner’s campaign called that claim “categorically false and politically motivated” too — the same denial for every allegation, no matter how many women come forward.
This is a candidate who also spent the campaign explaining away a Nazi Totenkopf tattoo he covered up, trashing a Purple Heart veteran on Reddit as deserving to die, and suggesting sexual assault victims should “take some responsibility.” Democrats nominated him anyway, and only bailed when the scandal finally threatened Susan Collins’ seat — the one Republican incumbent they actually need to beat.
Even in withdrawal, Platner’s team reportedly tried to strong-arm Maine Democrats into letting him hand-pick his own replacement, according to state party officials — a last grab at control from a man who never once took responsibility for the women lining up against him.
Source: nypost.com