Graham Platner says he's 'reflecting' on Maine Senate bid after assault allegation
NEW: The Maine Democratic Party is calling for Platner to drop out. Source: VoteHub. I feel like someone should have listened to us earlier on this.
AATTRAVERSATO144it's not like he wrote it a cross his chest
DesertYETI139SO SO SO many people were shouting from the rafters that this guy was bad friggin' news. What a predictable mess.
erickbt.bsky.social114This post sums up America “If they just listened to women the first time”
rebeccaco84Heather Cox Richardson is from Maine!!
DTwyman62Yep. And here’s the thing, most of us really don’t get any pleasure out of “I told you so.” we just wanted them to listen to us before the inevitable happened, particularly since in this case, the writing was on the damn wall!
Lisa G51Seriously, can Dems do some vetting before supporting candidates? That's just the basic requirement no? Look social media & do some interviews of friends, neighbors, co-workers & past co-workers & employers jeez! I've been on vetting committees, it's not rocket science
Bouvier Mom5Platner was unacceptable and I said that on day one. The Democratic party should not be represented by racist, nazis that rape women, that’s MAGA, not us. Bernie’s got some splaining to do !
iamdavieboy.bsky.social3Yes we should have. I admit I was wrong about Platner. Now can we pull together for Maine and see if we can find a candidate that can beat Susan Collin’s. Last I checked she is still an awful Senator.
Robert White2You cannot demand accountability of Trump and the rest of the Epstein cadre and give this guy a pass. Quite simple: you cannot have it both ways. He can clear his name and then come back.
R. Souissi2Imma go make a margarita cause this is too good to be true
JCMartinofBA2So you're voting for Susan Collins, right?
Clyde Barnchaser2I agree. I was nervous when I heard that Platner had won the primary. I feel like he misled the Maine Democratic Party when he said there were no more skeletons in his closet.
Lion Hunter Music2What's the deal with people like Graham Platner and Eric Swallwell? What level of arrogance, stupidity, and hubris drives them to seek public office knowing full well they have such self-destructive baggage? Moreover, their self-serving charades have done real damage to the American body politic.
Dollyanna2GOOD, that’s the right thing to do! How about a young woman?
ELIZABETH WARREN calls on Platner to drop out: “There can be no tolerance for sexual assault… With so much at stake, the best path forward is for Graham Platner to step aside as the Democratic nominee and address these serious allegations outside this Senate race.”
Jen Rubin141And where the eff is Bernie??
Kat Z116Better late than never but she should never have endorsed him in the first place
H R Pickens54So her line is somewhere between "violent domestic abuse" and "rape." I guess that's better than no line at all, but, Jesus.
Eileen36I was crushed when she endorsed him. Damage was done.
Andy Barnett22No one should run for senate as their first politic office.
Collaterly20so why did all of these fucking freaks endorse him? we told you all not to endorse this fucking Nazi rapist and you did it anyway! When will you fucking resign @warren.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov
Snitty17Well, she blew her first chance at it and she should still be embarrassed about that but at least she got this part.
Pierce15She endorsed him 2 days after the primary ad about his rape apologia comments.
Keira Havens14OK look. Congrats on bailing on the sinking ship I guess. Pretty unhappy one of the most powerful people in the world is backtracking on their preferred choice of colleague via breakup text. Y'all better pass a version of Massie's sunlight bill exposing sexual harassment payoffs real quick.
Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬11She waited to see which way the wind was blowing
ZL (she/her)11Substituting "antisemitic expression" and "racism and misogyny" on each of these statements to see how they would have read "There can be no tolerance for antisemitic expression..." "There can be no tolerance for racism and misogyny..." Solid work; perhaps Warren could have said this sooner!
doctor eep (alt decorative gourd season)7liz warren rejecting the gambler's fallacy is a good start and she should keep going about it
Steven Santos6Extremely disappointed that Warren endorsed him to begin with. Bernie still remains silent.
Mary Pezzulo6I like Warren. I voted for her in the 2020 primary. She needs to go further than this and apologize for endorsing him when he was already obviously a hot mess.
Free-quent Flyer5After Susan Collins votes to confirm Nick Fuentes to the Supreme Court this is going to make for an awesome one of those yellow set-aside boxes in the AP US History textbooks of the future. "Many thought the Republic might be saved as late as 2026 but the Sensible Moderate Center had other plans"
Ari Ofsevit5If only some of us had called her office and told her this a couple of months ago she could have avoided this egg on her face.
Assuming he is dropping out, which I believe is imminent, whoever replaces Platner in the Maine Senate race is going to need a fuckton of our help. We can flip that seat! We HAVE to!
ellenahzulu.bsky.social23Collins has successfully marketed herself as a centrist check on both parties for so long ppl don't stop to ask: Why isn't she an indie like Sen. King? The reality is she's pure GOP. She's been GOP all along, giving the GOP a critical seat & critical votes at critical junctures.
John D ❌👑14Pivot people, pivot !! Maine democrats… pull that bandaid off without delay !!
skol87.bsky.social12It wasn't Platner that people were in love with, it was what he campaigned on. I'd love it if the party listened to these voters and picked a real progressive
Da Man On The Street10I still think we should draft Stephen King... he hates #TraitorTrump as much as we do!
Barb, Red State Blue Neck9There's several creepy men in this thread that seem to have the attitude of, "Republican men get away with rape, so we all should".
Frank🦋🇺🇸🦋9Why is this happening?! Why do we fall on our knives?! Every time infidelity is mentioned with a Democrat Candidate, GOP / MAGA doesn’t give a fuck about infidelity We ha a president that’s guilty of child rape Proven Adult rape , proven infidelity
MrPassportKing7Agreed! 100%! Susan Collins must go. She has repeatedly failed Maine voters from her confirmation of Kavanaugh, her initial vote to advance Trump's Big Beautiful Disaster Bill to the Senate floor, her vote to acquit Trump in his 1st impeachment and a plethora of other questionable choices.
Andrew Levesque6In a Mainer. We cannot have Collins reelected! Not here in Maine, not nationally….
Mandeville GemsSeller GIA AJP3It is another swalwell. Estb dems hiding all this. All bc Dem leadership and dem/gop protectors, just cannot get behind a normal progressive candidate. instead, they push these terrible candidates while they ask us to ignore Israel, aipac and the war and gaza and Lebanon and Palantir
Wayne Exclaims3I'm on the other coast and I approve this message enough to repost it. Collins is beatable! Jeez, Maine, Platner had a Nazi tattoo and it's been known for awhile he has a sordid history with women...and he was TIED with Collins.
NspiredTeacher2We better get “the King!” That is Stephen King!
BREAKING: Graham Platner said he is “taking the time to reflect on the best path forward” for his candidacy minutes after POLITICO reported that a woman who dated him said he forced her to have sex with him, which he denies. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Doc Zombie - Trauma Therapy for Americans150Sex scandals are only for Democrats. Republicans get to enjoy them free of consequences.
TrumpIsTheEnemy 🐸🏳🌈🇺🇦#FDJT #DC517725 times women have said that Donald Trump raped them.
Alexis Vandom42There's a four-letter word for this, yaknow. Starts with an R, ends with an E, and seems like an APt description.
suncloudswe.bsky.social35Since the last woman to accuse him was a literal AIPAC operative, maybe look into who is making the allegations first? All for believing victims, but we can't be naive to the dirty tricks of the fascist GOP. They would do ANYTHING to keep a "commie socialist" from power.
She has the opportunity to file charges. Both women decided to play it out in the press instead. If you're going to crucify one side, at least do the same for the other. The entire legacy media failed the public by not reporting on Trump's Epstein connection in his first election.
jbshakerman.bsky.social18Graham is being targeted by Schumercrats, the guys who took out Al Franken, as well as the GOP. I hate this timeline.
The Northland Texan 🇺🇸 🇺🇦5He needs to drop out.
Gingit3They’re still defending him. Donald Trump raped 25 women. Platner only raped one. The world is lost.
MJW3This whole thing is so gross and tied to white men on the left wanting a big strong man to be violent like the big strong violent men on the right. It's all so dumb and was obvious months ago.
En Lilitu-Sin3More allegations of sexual misconduct you say? Powerful Dems are now withdrawing endorsement now? Dems have to hope he drops out of the Senate race before 13JUL or they're screwed? It's like Dems love punching themselves in their own balls every time. Or just start fucking believing women now.
G-Manetho2I read the article from Politico & he has no choice now but to exit ASAP, if he really cares about defeating the horrible susan collins.
Call Me Maybe2This thread is full of rape apologists, women blamers, and general pieces of shit. I’m blocking so many people.
[No//Thrones]2Almost like the Nazi tattoo was a red flag or something
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats begin withdrawing endorsements of Graham Platner after Maine Senate candidate faces sexual assault allegation.
comrade153If only the communists had pointed out his massive red flags over and over and over and over and over and over and over
Pixel Pushers Union 51274Gosh, who could've seen this coming.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper50He lied to Elizabeth Warren when she asked if there was more? This is on you @warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @rokhanna.bsky.social and every person who endorsed this predator over anyone of the other democratic candidates.
Anna Busy Bee45There are 345 million Americans. Why is it so hard to find candidates for the Senate who are not incredibly stupid, a bigot or a sex offender?
BeelerD 🏳️⚧️44People tried to tell you about this peckerhead months ago. For fuck sake, he had a Nazi tattoo. Like that drunk Secretary of Defense.
Incandescent Rage29We told you but you wouldn’t listen
Mr. Buick51If only there were glaring red flags attached to screaming sirens affixed to a Mercedes-Benz 770 with a swastika emblazoned on the hood before this particular revelation came out
✨queer commie terrorist✨43fuck all of you who went to bat for him in the first place (including you @governorwalz.mn.gov) *after* a ridiculous amount of red flags started popping up the majority of you weird dorks have the political instincts of an overly forward hedgehog
Zach Hazard Vaupen37As if this doesn’t fall perfectly in line with him being a neo-Nazi ex-military contractor. Who could have guessed??
Nicole Votes Becerra14FUCK ALL OF THEM. All the red flags and they waved them away because he looked and sounded like their mythical ideation of a WHITE working class man. He was made up by Bernie and his followers.
Captain Murphy13I did NAZI that coming!
Suzanne 🇵🇸 she/her12The nazi thing was fine, tho, and not at all an indication that he has issues.
Holly Green11This entire fiasco was avoidable! Where there's smoke there's fire, not...a newly put-out fire
Jennifer9Imagine if these democrats hadn’t endorsed this man after the first 20 red flags, but instead pulled the Maine dems aside and said THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING???? But of course they wouldn’t have done that because white men in flannel shirts are the only people in the electorate who matter.
Leader Won’t Draw8Feels like there was a time before now to do this
Zach Stewart5Man, Bernie really fucking sucks at reading people.
Graham Platner hid his sexual assaults the right way. by Ezra Klein
Erik the Rural Juror19In a very special episode featuring Jon Favreau.
Mike Roettger11Today is the day Graham Platner truly became a Trump cabinet official.
Hiegold7Platner should probably drop out. But then again, this is Congress where every other computer probably has child porn on it. By Jeffrey Epstein
The Screaming Butt Naked Patriot6Opinion | Graham Platner has learned his lesson. By Susan Collins
acebojangles.bsky.social3No no no. Those takes are only for current right wing assholes, not possibly former right wing assholes
Nigel Garbage1Mitch McConnell practices comas the right way. by Ezra Klein
Politico reports a woman, Jenny Racicot, alleges Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner raped her in 2021. He denies it as “categorically false” and politically motivated, and is weighing his campaign’s future. True…or false, my guess is…he’s probably done.
Saxon Walker21Even if it's false (which I doubt), all the other stuff makes it awfully easy to believe, and nearly everyone will. His candidacy is untenable.
Bonkutis of Borg18Again, it's odd that these only seem to pop up right before the pirmary or main election push...
clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦16No one should be surprised— the man had way to much baggage prior to the latest allegation.
Crazy Mary antifascist14Damn it I knew something bigger than nazi tattoos was coming 🤬 and I’d bet gop knew and did an oppo 🤬🤬
FREEDUMB Paytreeat11@democrats.org will eat the white guy alive and wonder why they lost in November. If he’s criminally found to be guilty of a crime I’m all for removing him. An accusation during election season, call me skeptical. There is no bottom for the GOP.
tuftsgang10Republicans are trying every single dirty trick in the book to keep from Losing a single Senate/House seat. They are very capable of a smear campaign. Where was this person before? Why wait a few months before the Election? Strange. #suspicious Did she submit a police report & rape kit?
jfc this is the worst possible take on Graham Platner
Jerry Shaver103Cenk doesn't honestly think that sexual assault is a dealbreaker.
Sami Eerola56How Uygur explains that Mandami had no such acisations against his run for mayor?
James Lindley Wilson46“They never do this for insiders.” Yes, I recall legacy media famously giving Hillary Clinton a free pass.
Alice Campos44Yes AIPAC is hiding all the rape allegations in Susan Collins’s sordid past, of course, why didn’t I consider that earlier
The Powell Nemo40This is indistinguishable from tucker carlson
Mike Thompson36This is Eric Swalwell erasure
Charles Gaba ✡️80A reminder that Abdul El Sayed’s gym bro buddy Hasan Piker is this asshole’s nephew.
Cape Cod Demon Hunter38I think if they just framed every anti-Israel candidate as a rapist they probably would have done it to al-Sayed, considering his opponents have repeatedly tried to imply he's a misogynist
politiburb26yeah this one isn't surprising
Cai16When are you people gonna wake up to the fact that this guy sucks
Michael Paulauski♨️16Just explicitly blame the Jews, Cenk, this is taking forever.
Magenta13the establishment is making up so much stuff about platner, did we ever consider that platner is just a figment of the establishment's imagination?
jdm12One should approach media outlets critically and question their framing, but the world where none of us believe “mainstream media” “at all” is probably effectively giving up on the idea we can know anything about the world. How do I even know Graham Platner exists? I’ve never seen him.
jesse, 3710i'm 1000% sure that mamdani was opposition-researched as hard if not ten times as hard at platner but all they found is that he's a DSA dude with a gorgeous wife who loves his filmmaker mom
Alyssa S.10Got it. Any opposition is still all "because of AIPAC." Fuck these dudes.
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️9Massive quantities of Hitler Particles detected in this sector. Cenk needs to go away.
Dam Breaks As Elected Dems Withdraw Support, Urge Platner to Drop Out of Maine Senate Race talkingpointsmemo.com/news/elected...
GOPGadfly23WTF. Could they not see, like we did and said so, months ago that this would happen? This guy is a train wreck. It was plain to see. The one thing I always adhere to that my mother told me about politics. Never ever fall in love with a candidate because they will always let you down.
Ariana Niko12As someone who wants Democrats to win the Senate, I’m genuinely torn. Maine is one of the seats we have to flip. But if we walk away from our own standards just to win, what exactly are we asking voters to believe makes us different? Tough call.
Grisly Accord9Well hot damn. The “No Fuckin Nazi Tattoos Purity Test” is lookin pretty good right now, innit? Who coulda seen it comin, amiright?
Marc Goodner8Who could have seen this coming? Oh right... "days after revelations that he’d cheated on his wife and intimidated some of his former girlfriends were published"
prudenincorporated.bsky.social6Wow. AIPAC is pulling out all the stops.
manleypeg.bsky.social6This guy should NEVER have gotten this far.
cvilledems.bsky.social4We stay neutral in Democratic primaries, but we can smell the aroma of toast.
dogemperor (PLAY NEO:TWEWY, ZEPTOGRAMS)4Let this be a lesson: When you see the stripes on a yellowjacket's rear (the Nazi ink; the coverup of Nazi ink with more Nazi ink; lying about the Nazi ink; hanging out with neo-Nazis; history of chudderie on Reddit) don't invite it to sting you on your ass (the sex pest & sex abuse scandals)
AblativMeatshld4Every person that supported him before today needs to be driven from Dem politics/policy. They clearly didn't imagine a Nazi and abuser could ever have even more hidden shit, and are thus too stupid to be allowed anything remotely important.
Paul Guinnessy3He does need to drop out.
BREAKING Congressman Ro Khanna has withdrawn his endorsement of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and called on him to drop out. This comes after Politico published allegations of sexual violence against Platner.
John Tuttle26I’m glad he has a red line. And sexual assault should be one. But how was “Nazi tattoo” NOT red line?!
Kimtentional7Leslie Knope in her run for Pawnee City Council got vetted better than Platner.
Laura6So why isn’t it a red line for republicans? Why is a 34-count convicted felon in the WH? Why is someone SCOTUS has upheld the ruling on for E. Jean Carroll still sitting in the WH? Do your damn jobs!
John Sibley5Anyone who endorsed this man has serious judgement issues.
Doyle from High School ❌👑4Woah, woah - but what if he says he’s changed since then?
Chad 🌈 he/him/his3It’s only a red line for democrats.
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin72Ya know, the allegations of DV are a month old. Again, better late than never, but seriously: do not forget what each and every one of these folks were willing to let slide, and what each and every one of them said about his other victims.
Immigrant Punk7Pay attention to what they say. Good to know that sexual assault is his red line. Nazi stuff he is okay with.
Nicholas Handler5Get in, loser, we’re doing normal politics with extensive vetting and candidates who only post to socials through their communications staff.
David Darmofal4Platner’s done. When you’ve lost Ro Khanna. @charlesgaba.com @shannonrwatts.bsky.social
Sam Mintz2Perhaps Ro Khanna should rethink where he paints his red line next time, because this red line missed a whole lot that should have been disqualifying
Chuck Schumer and DSCC chair Kirsten Gillibrand now calling on Graham Platner to drop out: “Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw.... The DSCC will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot.”
Jen Bendery60"Senate Majority PAC is redirecting resources away from the Maine Senate race in light of the latest allegations against Graham Platner," says its spokesperson, Lauren French.
uckfayumptray18They can both REMAIN the fuck out of this conversation. It's up to Maine Democrats to name a replacement, not AIPAC.
Traveler-in-mind6Gillebrand was the same who single-handedly forced Al Franken to resign from the Senate. I (a Minnesotan) have not seen any proof of the allegations. Even the photo of the first accuser (who later said she didn't want to make Franken resign) does not necessarily show what she said it shows.
DenisDawg6At the very least, Platner acted like a republican in the past. That’s enough to disqualify him from office.
treeesq.bsky.social4Platner needs to drop out but Schumer and Gillibrand also need to have zero involvement in picking who replaces him. Last thing Dem Party needs is them picking another corp Dem like themselves. They are both getting primaried the next time they run and they will lose those primaries.
Margi in WA still upset 20243They support Mills. Also let me remind you Gillibrand wanted Al Franken's head over a joke made years before (for which he apologized) and she got it. The strict old school Democrats have been on a losing streak since.
Shoshana Bee86Moving fast to disassociate bsky.app/profile/jben...
Sharon85/r/Maine is going to be so normal about this (not)
Andrea Chalupa54I want to be perfectly clear: Kristen Gillibrand should resign, too. She's enriching her son with crypto deals, like a Russian style politician.
Matthew Cortland (they)51It's not just the DSCC — the money is shut off.
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍49This should have been made in private imo
synaxarion 林白乐10Schumer & the Dem senate financing committee decided they have viable paths to take the Senate without him, and the best way to preserve those paths is to cut Platner loose if he insists on staying in the race
Wandering Hoo7Correct message, maybe not the optimal messengers. (Unironically, Gallego would have been ideal)
Tex Ramone4I would love to believe they are doing this with the right intentions, but I’d bet anything that they care more about keeping Susan Collins in office. I mean, the Nazi tattoos, the racist/sexist comments online, the first wave of allegations… none of that was enough for you to drop him before this?
Eric Budd4they've seen how he's polling
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This whole Graham Platner situation could have been avoided if only racism and antisemitism were red lines for leftist white folks. But they rarely ever are.
I may be invisible, but you're transparent.21The number of white people who first told us nazi tattoos weren't that bad and that we were the enemy (Trump or Collins supporters) for opposing them has been fucking odious.
ZorrolittoTheElder / Melissa18This all should have ended at Nazi tattoo.
Monica Chilton10If you are a progressive who believes in “no war but class war”… you might be a racist. At any rate, one thing you are NOT is a progressive.
Peeved Professor aka Ann Tifa3Nope. Instead they’re considered essential values.
No one in Antifa was backing Graham Platner lol, what
Gwen Snyder is uncivil166I promise you, antifascists clocked this dude the second we saw that tattoo
Treyf Posting 🤌11People were calling folks who opposed Platner israel shills. Like, BITCHES, HE’S GOT A FUCKING NAZI TATTOO, HIS STANCE ON I/P IS IRRELEVANT
Ubernegro5Antifascists supporting a guy with a Nazi tattoo? People just be on here saying anything.
To be fair I probably should’ve just left it at Maine leftists.
Sexual assault is a red line. We are withdrawing our endorsement of Graham Platner and demanding he withdraw from the Maine Senate race.
Santiago Mayer71Folks, we did not lift a finger to support Platner before he became the nominee. We did not spend nor organize on his behalf. You can’t demand people always support the nominee and then attack them for doing so.
Jerry Shaver15The Nazi tattoo should have been the red line. We were told we had to compromise to win the election. Now we've lost the election and the moral high ground.
georgebrenner.bsky.social11Why the fuck you ever supported the guy with the Nazi tattoo is really beyond me
💮 The Queen of Sicily 💮5Looking forward to the first person who simply writes, "We were wrong, and we apologize for our lack of due diligence. We withdraw our support".
jc4Nazi tattoos are not a red line. Remember everyone saying this today.
Nolan Zugernat4Nazis should be a red line too.