I’m ready to take the stage on Thursday and make my case to Mainers. But nobody should be shut out of a U.S. Senate debate because of an arbitrary threshold based on the results of an entirely different race.
I urge News Center Maine to reconsider its standard for participation.
This is unconscionable. Anybody with eyes and a heart knows the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza. It has to end, and we as Americans have the power to end it.
When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I’ll never vote in favor of US taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel.
There is a powerful movement of working class people in the state of Maine, and millions more across America who are ready to send a progressive fighter to the Senate. I’ve been fighting for that movement my whole life — and I’m sure as hell not backing down now, when this fight is needed most.
I’m in. And we're going to defeat Susan Collins. Maine deserves a Senator that will fight for working families.
@motherdragon402@hasanthehun Setting aside your autistic inability to understand humor, nothing in that reader’s note contradicts his claim that he never asked anyone to donate nor did he campaign with Platner. I really hope you posted this disingenuously otherwise I worry for your capacity to survive life.
🚨 Graham Platner has withdrawn from Maine’s U.S. Senate race after facing mounting pressure following two recent sexual misconduct allegations, including a rape allegation, both of which he denies.
Platner, a former U.S. Marine, war veteran, and one of the very few anti-war and anti-genocide candidates in the 2026 election cycle, said the allegations are “all false” and that he was ending his campaign because the “political reality” was that party leaders and major donors “are going to take everything away from us,” making it impossible to continue. “We’re not doing it because of the allegations,” he said.
The Maine Democratic Party must now choose a replacement nominee by July 27 to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Platner urged party leaders to make the selection through an “open, transparent and democratic” process that reflects “the will and the values of the people of Maine,” not decisions made “in back rooms.”