A woman who previously dated Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said he drunkenly forced her to have sex after she told him to stop, according to a Politico report released Monday, leading prominent supporters to pull their endorsements and throwing a must-win race for the party into turmoil.
Platner denied the allegation, but said he would be considering next steps for his campaign.
“Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we’re taking the time to reflect on the best path forward,” he said in a video released on social media.
Jenny Racicot, who lives in Maine, told Politico that Platner entered her home in 2021 while drunk and assaulted her. Racicot said she had been in an on-and-off relationship with Platner, but she cut off contact with him after that night and told him the incident wasn’t consensual. A voicemail left at a number listed for Racicot seeking comment did not receive an immediate response.
Platner’s campaign did not immediately respond to an email and phone message from The Associated Press seeking comment.
“Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false,” Platner said in his video.
Still, the allegation sparked a flight away from a candidate who has long been controversial. Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who’d stood by Platner even as the insurgent candidate was hit with prior allegations, said Monday’s was enough. “I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line,” Khanna said. “These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement.”
Edit: holy shit, these comments are insane.
Regardless of what you believe with this, Platner likely cannot win anymore. He has a week to do the right thing and drop out before he’s fully locked in. If he actually gives any sort of a shit (and doesn’t just want power, like rapists seeking office tend to), he needs to drop out yesterday.
This is the nail in the coffin for his campaign. It’s not time to defend him no matter what, because there’s still a week where a new candidate can be put into place. Instead of being mad at people not wanting to vote for him, you should start vocally supporting another candidate.
This has a Gary Hart vibe. Senior Democrats dont want Platner around. Platner told Stewart months ago how no one from the DNC talked to him despite leading in polls.
So now he gets railroaded on 5 year old allegations that will go nowhere.
What a shame
Called this. Haha down voters.
Murdering innocents overseas is totally fine but God forbid he rape a white woman!!
Americans are something else, man.
Lmao, mods went haywire on this one. Removed multiple of my replies critizing rapists for civility. Seems like the liberals are spooked that their Nazi rapist murderer candidate is getting some criticism.
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Just hold a lottery for the senate / house seat. No politics, no filtering.
Yet another purity test failed, why can’t we tolerate sex pest Nazis?! Is nothing good enough for you leftists?
First you don’t want genocide and war crimes, now you don’t support rapists! We all know she is a filthy liar! No people in positions of power would do such a thing. Except for all the ones in office who do. But those guys don’t count! They’re Republicans!
If being a rapist gets you cancelled by the left, then the left would rather lose than let a rapist in office!
Clearly she’s lying about all of it. Never believe a single woman when they confess they were raped by someone I like. That’s what MSNBC told me when Biden was being questioned for his actions and defended Clarance Thomas to enter the Supreme Court, known sex pest.
This is just filthy slander, just vote Blue no matter who he rapes!
Sad but predictable, in that any charasmatic candidate that rises this far with an ideological outlook that would benefit the masses over the billionaires was always going to be in the firing line.
It also shows, at least, that democrats and liberal commentators won’t blindly offer their guy impunity and have some sence of morality, even though he was basically a winning ticket and the best chance for change in decades. Had it been the republicans they would have simply powered on and weathered the heat, brashly denying anything thrown at them. They successfully ended truth and accountability under Trump, and it would seem the Dems still cling to those apparently antiquated notions.
Damn liberal democrats are such pussies and this comment section confirms. Republicans can do whatever the hell they want including fascism rape and murder but the democrats at tea time are in a tiff. Good luck winning back the senate.
There are a lot of people in here who do not seem to know a story of someone that was sexually assaulted. I would hope to those of you that think this is bullshit to ask a woman in your life if they know someone that has been assaulted, and what they did. Because 99% of women will know someone or be someone like the woman this is referring to.
Her story is pretty believable and the actions taken are similar to many other people who have been assaulted: Cut ties and warn others. And that is exactly what she did. She knew Platner before this occurred and were even having a sexual relationship (this was from a series of interviews with Graham’s past relationships.) I think the most damning part of this is that she doesn’t appear to have a political agenda. She seems to agree with his messages.
As much as the average person immediately goes to the defense of the person they like more, this seems very credible. it is entirely likely that Planter may not have even been conscious of his actions, having been far too drunk. That isn’t really an excuse, though, and I do think his campaign should be finding a replacement ASAP. They can still run a progressive candidate, but holy fuck, they need to move fast.
Sexual assault should be treated as the disqualifying event that it is. I understand questioning the sincerity of the victim, but there are too many things that make me believe her, and if it is true, that should absolutely disqualify him from office.
Love how you guys can excuse murdering scores of innocent brown people overseas, and a literal Nazi tattoo on his chest, but as soon as he touches a white woman…
I thinking raping anyone is kinda bad, and that shouldn’t be contentious.
It should have come out after he dropped out of the race for having a literal racist antisemitic tattoo on him he definitely knew was a Nazi symbol sometime in the last 18 years. He has killed and he has raped people. Rape is serious but so is murder. He’s a literal murderer, and he bragged about it years later.
I would definitely argue that it’s incredibly evil and kinda bad makes you kinda sound like an apologist.
Are you MLs going to exclude all veterans from the revolution then?
Are you MLs going to consider that all veterans are a monolith and deserve to be morally contempted for the rest of their lives, with no chance of rehabilitation and change?
Your list of comrades will never stop shrinking if this mentality continues.
Note that Platner denies these rape accusations, when the victim has contemporaneous receipts and Platner’s therapy never got around to covering this. Apparently he can rehabilitate as a veteran but not as a sex pest. THAT’S the part y’all should be concerned with.
Are you MLs going to exclude all veterans from the revolution then?
From leadership positions? Sure.
Are you MLs going to consider that all veterans are a monolith and deserve to be morally contempted for the rest of their lives, with no chance of rehabilitation and change?
Excluding someone from a leadership position does not mean they “deserve to be morally contempted with no chance of rehabilitation or change.” This whole mentality is completely screwed up and backwards.
If a politician fucks up or does something shitty, and they want my forgiveness, then they’re completely free to drop out of politics. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen or something. Better yet, go out and make restitution to your victims. It doesn’t matter if you’re unable to undo the damage you caused, so long as you’re trying and you’re being humble about it.
But somehow, and idk if this is an American thing or what, but people like you get things completely twisted. A politician can just say “I’m sorry,” do absolutely nothing to make restitution or demonstrate humility, and everything’s fine! It’s ridiculous, that’s not forgiveness, that’s either not caring about what they did in the first place, or bootlicking and refusing to hold powerful people accountable.
No one who’s truly sorry and ashamed about something they’ve done would try to make themselves the face of a political movement and expect people to rally around them. Why does it have to be him when there are plenty of other people out there who haven’t been a killer for hire or a rapist?
It’s completely insane.
Beautifully and succinctly said!
If a former veteran gets elected as a politician, blocks legislation that favors the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and Israel, and passes legislation that benefits the constituents at home, then that’s some real, tangible restitution. And veterans turned dissenters of the existing regime may make more inroads than others without that background because of their spite and disdain for the status quo.
Someone being a product of the system they were indoctrinated into doesn’t disqualify them from changing the system. That’s purity politics.
If a former veteran gets elected as a politician, blocks legislation that favors the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and Israel, and passes legislation that benefits the constituents at home, then that’s some real, tangible restitution.
No, no it’s not, that’s not how anything works. “I just need to acquire power for myself so that I can make up for the bad things I did” is completely the wrong mentality and not someone who is genuinely seeking forgiveness. Your path of redemption does not look like you becoming one of the most powerful and influential people on earth. You want forgiveness, you use the power that you have right now to make a difference.
This is fundamental. Everyone has some fantasy about how, once they’re rich and famous and powerful, once they win the lottery, they’ll be super generous and kind and make the world a better place. And in the meantime, if they have to screw people over to get there, it doesn’t matter because it’ll all work out in the end. Seeking forgiveness necessarily means rejecting that mentality!
If you have already fucked up with what power you have, then the problem isn’t that you don’t have enough power, it’s that you aren’t capable of using that power responsibly. The last thing you should be trying to do is acquire more power, and doing that is fundamentally incompatible with redemption.
That’s purity politics.
So be it. If that’s purity politics, then we need way more purity politics in the US.
Biden spent his entire long career creating and exacerbating every problem the country has been facing, and somehow anyone who tried to apply any standard whatsoever to him, including just basic cognitive functioning, was accused of practicing “purity politics.” The US already has the least “pure” political standards in the entire world. That’s how we got here.
How do veterans make people’s lives better in the grand scheme? Lead soup kitchens? Set up mutual aide networks?
Is mass change through the state apparatus not an effective way of achieving the same goals?
Doesn’t mean Platner can’t do both, of course. And he hasn’t.
How do veterans make people’s lives better in the grand scheme?
“Grand scheme” nope, immediately wrong. You want to make things better in some big dramatic way, you want to be the face of a movement, you want a leadership position, don’t commit war crimes and rape people. Period.
You want to earn redemption and forgiveness having done those things? You contribute to other people’s movements and efforts. You quietly support from the background.
The vast majority of people who are actually working to make the world a better place receive little to no recognition. They never get their name up in lights, even if they do good their entire lives without killing and raping first. Now, you think the killer-for-hire is somehow entitled to being one of the few people who get recognition, who represent the movement? That they’re too good to do the quiet and humble work that non-murderers do? Where do you get off?
Is mass change through the state apparatus not an effective way of achieving the same goals?
Whether it is or not is irrelevant, the point is that Platner shouldn’t be one of the figures leading and representing that effort.
Are you MLs going to exclude all veterans from the revolution then?
Just the ones that go back 4 times for the thrill of killing, volunteer at torture prisons, and work for mercenary groups.
Apparently he can rehabilitate as a veteran but not as a sex pest.
Rapists aren’t sex pests, they’re rapists.
So only veterans that touch and go with the military for 6 months or 1 tour are worthy of rehabilitation and your support?
Once again, this mentality will never lead to the populist revolution Lenin wrote about.
I’m not here to debate you about what is or isn’t a sex pest. Platner can fuck off in that regard.
Uhh, yes. If you don’t see the fucking evil way americas military treats innocent civilians on your first tour and then immediately regret it, and actively go back 3 more times, then volunteer for a torture camp, then become a mercenary… Fuck you.
Not a hard concept to understand, yeah?
Propaganda can take longer for some if they choose to ignore reality.
Not a lot of leftists are vegans in this regard. If they saw how gas chambers, pistols to the head, knives to the throat are used to kill animals and get them prepped for people’s chicken nuggets and jalapen poppers, you’d think they’d change and stop eating meat, but to them the speciesist propaganda that humans are better persists.
Did you write this in the wrong spot? The fuck does this have to do with anything?
If Platner wants to defend himself publicly on this, and/or keep running, and/or sue the accuser for libel, he’s free to do any or all of that. As anyone who’s been around for a few cycles know, its pretty common for candidates and other public figures, when they first reach a certain terminal level of attention or fame, to get a wide range of accusations on business, personal matters, drug use, and past sexual behavior. Just because these appear to be conveniently timed politically, is not evidence for or against their veracity. If there is no actual juice to these accusations, then dealing with people who lob bombs like that into the middle of campaigns is a well-worn playbook that thousands of politicians have run and won with, and he’ll be fine. If.
Another aspect as to why this is different is because it’s so well substantiated. It’s like… Textbook. There’s so little to argue with.
The previous claims against him had none of that, and came from his direct opposition. That is suspicious. These claims are not.
She warned multiple other women and has proof way before he even started his campaign
Very much with the “if.” I’d rather not add more logs to the everlasting bonfire of “women ignored for political expediency.” If it is fake, then handle it like a normal person instead of self-destructing.
The Democratic establishment would rather lose to Susan Collins than win with an outsider candidate. The fact that Bill Clinton is accepted in polite society and Platner has to be banished demonstrates that sexual scandals are a cudgel to be wielded selectively.
Maybe if the outsider wasn’t a literal rapist Nazi-murderer, you’d have a better chance?
Nobody really knew Clinton was on the Epstein list when he was in office so the worst thing he did in people’s eyes was get a consensual blow job.
You can’t seriously be saying that is as bad as sexual assault (if in fact that’s what happened here).
As for now, most people want Clinton to answer for what he may have done with Epstein.
Come on in. The shit is steaming and our eyes are burning and we got every kind of emotional take in the book.
once more into the breach
DAMMIT! After the FIRST Republican hit piece I said I don’t care PLATNER is my Guy but now that there’s a SECOND Republican hit piece with the EXACT same Allegation I guess I have NO CHOICE but to Vote for the People who will CONTINUE Protecting the Epstein Class!
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Nice false dichotomy.
I’d like neither, because that is an option. Still plenty of time for a different Democratic candidate
hopefully this will be a good lesson for the leftists that will vote for anyone that is
anti-jewanti-israelanti-epstein-classhorseshoe much?
Yeah, I generally agree with always believing a victim. But in this case, the person is clearly also a political operative. Waiting until just after the primary makes me immediately question her story. At the very least, it shows she cares much more about electing a Republican than she does about actually receiving justice. If she is a victim, she’s also an opportunist.
The party can still choose a new candidate if he steps down in the next week
If she were a political operative, she would have waited for the July 13 deadline to pass
No, don’t you see, she deleted every text message, Instagram DM, call record and any other corrobarating proof that could ever backup the story and never filed a police report for these awful crimes and didn’t say a word for the past year because she saw that no one took the first accuser seriously because she was a proud Republican and she actually totally, like, agrees with Platner’s policies and is totally a Democrat [citation needed - allegedly voted Trump last year], so she did the wise thing and waited until the 25th hour of what is arguably the determining election of giving Dems the control of senate to write a hit piece about something that happened 7 years ago and hand the election to the 29-year incumbent demonstrably guilty of much worse. It’s that simple.
She provided a ton of corroborating evidence. Stop using misinformation to create a strawman
She didn’t delete the text messages and emails.
Racicot said she later deleted all her texts and socia media correspondence with Platner as she tried to move on from the assault. and said she has not beer able to recover the Instagram messages she sent him about the incident
She deleted all the texts with him but not all the ones with other people about him.
She deleted the text messages directly with Platner, not with her friends or therapist.
Racicot also shared details about the alleged assault to the man she dated after Platner, who she began dating in 2022. The man, who was granted anonymity out of concern for his personal privacy, told POLITICO that Racicot had told him in bits and pieces about a bad experience with Platner before confiding the full details of what had happened in 2023. His account of what Racicot told him about the incident matched what Racicot told POLITICO.
Racicot shared with POLITICO a series of private Facebook messages she exchanged with an acquaintance in 2023, about a year and a half after the alleged assault and well before Platner launched his political career, in which she cautioned the acquaintance against getting involved with Platner. In the messages, Racicot said she had “ended up in a bad situation with him,” describing Platner as “consensually careless” and saying he “doesn’t listen to you when drunk.” Reached by POLITICO, the acquaintance said she received the messages but declined to comment; POLITICO granted her anonymity at her request to protect her privacy in her Maine community.
Just to clarify, this is a different woman from the one whose actual job is “political operative”. This woman could also be timing this for political effect, but supporting Republican efforts isn’t her job like the main accuser in the NYT piece.
This woman also has text messages and emails to back up her claims.
No she doesn’t. She said she deleted them. From the Politico article:
Racicot said she later deleted all her texts and social media correspondence with Platner as she tried to move on from the assault, and said she has not been able to recover the Instagram messages she sent him about the incident.
The other messages are ambiguous (they do not mention rape), or are a few weeks old, between her and her therapist.
She deleted only the messages with Platner.
Those other messages are not as ambiguous as those of you who want to support this rapist want to believe or push here.
Yeah, this one is a credible accusation
Hopefully someone progressive can replace platner if this causes his campaign to pull out
It won’t be someone progressive. The people who would be choosing a last minute replacement are the people who didn’t want him to win the primary.
There’s no real viable replacement. Even if they choose someone who represented the policies the voters supported in him, which they won’t do, Platner is the only one with the justification of being chosen by voters to justify people who didn’t vote for him supporting him in the general. Anyone else is opening the door for finding some difference to now mean the candidate isn’t the choice of the party.
And that’s in the dreamland where the insiders choose a spare charismatic progressive outsider they had hanging around rather than someone who’s in their club.
Whether she has supporting evidence isn’t relevant to anything in the comment you replied to.
The parent comment claimed this woman is coming forward as a Republican hit piece. I’m just adding to the conversation by noting she has evidence.
She has evidence that she had some contact with Platner. But according to the narrative she describes, there couldn’t have been any text messages providing direct evidence of the assault. She’s saying that at the time, she sent messages to other people. But it’s not like Platner texted her a confession.
But come on, it’s 2026. You need to be a little more cynical, less naive, and have a properly calibrated bullshit detector. Did Platner assault her? Certainly possible. But it’s also sus as hell.
And yes, it clearly is meant to be politically motivated. She may be a Democrat, but as we’ve seen, plenty of Democrats hate progressive candidates. And the timing is damning. She may be a legitimate victim, but if so, she’s also cynically manipulating her rape for political points. She’s literally using her sexual assault as a political poker chip. You don’t perfectly time the allegation to have maximum political impact otherwise.
How conspiracy minded do you have to be to think she texted her friend warning her about Platner years before his senate run in order to sabotage him now?
Why else would she say Platner assaulted her in this way other than he assaulted her?
I think youre going to find yourself on the wrong side of this one.
Idk, if I were assaulted by him I think I would wait to maximize damage, considering how difficult it is to get a conviction on SA charges.
I wasn’t referring to the earlier case. The woman here is a political operative because her first priority is politics, not justice or closure. You don’t time your accusation to maximize political effects if you’re not a political operative. Even if she is telling the truth, she is a political operative first, and a victim second.
I don’t care if she’s cynical or unlikable or politically motivated if he in fact raped her. He shouldn’t have done that if he didn’t want people to call him a rapist at inconvenient times.
I do care about her motivations, because motivations tell you a lot. It tells you that her first priority is politics. It’s Schrodinger’s assault - simultaneously so traumatic as to warrant making an accusation years later, yet so mild that the need for justice was so low that she was able to keep it to herself until the most opportune moment. It’s suspicious as all Hell, and I wish folks like you just weren’t so credulous.
You do realize that people lie, right? And Democratic politicians are particularly vulnerable to false accusations of sexual assault, as the base has been conditioned (for good reason) to by default believe victims.
But you have to keep your brain on. Believing victims is a good general rule. But only a Sith deals in absolutes. You should believe victims, but you also shouldn’t be a naive fool. If all it takes for you to abandon a campaign is someone making a politically opportunistic assault allegation, then you will never see politicians you like elected.
Yes, as a general rule, false allegations are rare. But we’re talking about a heated Senate seat, with millions of dollars on the line, where a false accusation can do real damage in the time it takes for the truth to come out. Normally there isn’t a lot of motivation for people to make false assault allegations. But in cases like this, there’s a huge motivation to do so.
This is media literacy 101. When someone has a huge motivation to spread false allegations, you need to treat them skeptically, even if “believe the victim” is generally a good first approach.
My issue with your comment was:
Even if she is telling the truth, she is a political operative first, and a victim second.
If she’s telling the truth, I don’t care if she’s a political operative, because what she’s telling the truth about is being sexually assaulted by Platner. If you are using the timing as a reason to believe she is lying, then I understand that. But I can’t imagine caring about her motivation if she is telling the truth.
First, I’m not conceding that she’s telling the truth. I can imagine caring about her motivations, because in this case, she is both a sexual victim and a sexual abuser, or at least an abuse enabler.
If she is telling the truth, consider who you’re talking about here. You’re talking about a sexual assault victim that is actively trying to harm other sexual assault victims. She’s working to get a Republican elected to the Senate - the same Republican that played a role in getting Roe v. Wade overturned. You’re talking about someone that is both a victim and an abuser. Collins winning will be a massive detriment to every citizen of Maine that is a victim of assault or rape.
That’s why it matters. You don’t get to play “believe every victim” card when you yourself are actively trying to victimize people.
Its 100% credible. She’s got texts and e-mails with friends and a therapist from the time period.
Graham is done.
No. The therapist ones are recent. They have a few chat messages from friends, but only from people whose names Politico didn’t disclose. She explicitly said she deleted most of her texts.
They are allegations, but he probably did. But did you know it’s not illegal to run for senator when you have been convicted of a felony?
In a representative democracy, the rational way to go is to vote for the person who you think will vote on the same side as you on issues you care about. You’re not choosing a friend or someone you will interact with on a regular basis.
Republicans understood this a long time ago. Billionaires understand it too, that’s why they give money to candidates they think are more susceptible to return the favor.
Purity tests are something you have to put aside when your country is sliding into fascism… Otherwise you’re giving an advantage to the other side.
Naw you don’t have to vote for rapists.
So what’s the other option in this election?
Yeah, I generally agree with always believing a victim. But
This is going to be the legacy of Plantner’s campaign. Not that he was a fake-leftest, but that so many of his supporters turned out to be.
Sorry. I have a bullshit detector. She’s either not a victim, or at the very least, she cares far more about influencing politics than she does about seeking justice. It’s sus as hell. You’re incredibly naive.
We’ve done it, We’ve circled around to fake news.
This women has produced dated text messages discussing the assault prior to Planter’s campaign. That’s pretty solid this time. Plus the connection between these two can be corroborated. Additionally I’ve heard there are dated therapists notes, but I haven’t seen those.
The Epstein class will not be taken down by other rapists
Yes, you are spreading fake news.
Let’s actually be specific.
This women has produced dated text messages discussing the assault prior to Planter’s campaign.
This is the only contemporary digital record alleged in any of the stories:
Racicot shared with POLITICO a series of private Facebook messages she exchanged with an acquaintance in 2023, about a year and a half after the alleged assault and well before Platner launched his political career, in which she cautioned the acquaintance against getting involved with Platner. In the messages, Racicot said she had “ended up in a bad situation with him,” describing Platner as “consensually careless” and saying he “doesn’t listen to you when drunk.” Reached by POLITICO, the acquaintance said she received the messages but declined to comment; POLITICO granted her anonymity at her request to protect her privacy in her Maine community.
So, facebook messages, not text. And she didn’t discuss the assault at all, at least not beyond very general terms. And the people involved are anonymous. It seems she never explicitly said “he assaulted me” to her friends. She made vague allegations that could describe a lot of scenarios, some that would be disqualifying, some not.
Additionally I’ve heard there are dated therapists notes, but I haven’t seen those.
Please provide a source, not just “I heard.” Because the Politico and NYTimes articles make zero mention of contemporary therapist notes. You are spreading misinformation. There are therapist notes, but they’re not contemporaneous.
They’re not anonymous to Politico, they would have spoken to them and verified their identities. They’re only anonymous in the story to protect them from harassment from creeps who think they’re part of a conspiracy.
Holy shit dude, those messages are not ambiguous at all. Stop supporting rapists. You sound a lot like a MAGA cultist
They are ambiguous! Holy shit, stop supporting political opportunists, you sound like a corporate Dem.
“ended up in a bad situation with him,”
“consensually careless”
“Doesn’t listen to you when drunk”
This could describe anything from a guy who puts an unwanted hand on someone’s shoulder to full on rape. That’s extremely ambiguous! No where does she allege a rape or assault explicitly. That doesn’t disprove the rape allegation, but it’s also hardly evidence for it.
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Rape isn’t the same accusation nor the same suspect accuser
My very first thought was “Again? Is this a recycled article?”
Aren’t there any independents, Green party, or Forward Party rep candidates?? FWD has an ethics and values section on their main page showing they mean business!
Vermin Supreme is right next door in NH.
Vermin Supreme the friendly fascist! He does know what’s best for you. I can’t wait to receive my pony.
I will believe the accusations by default but if he does not drop out, Mainers still need to choose the rapist (accused, alleged or not) over the supreme-rapist enabler who will help remove the right for women to vote and have bodily autonomy, continue reckless and expensive wars, subsidizing billionaire excess, and send US taxpayer money to Israel’s genocide while starving Maine. If Platner drops out, more likely than not, a replacement like David Costello may write many words in opposition to Collins’ party, but push for little action.
I think Platner has 48 hours to research to find if AIPAC or outside groups (not including Cheyenne Hunt & Reckoning Action, Racicot reached out to them supposedly) have unduly influenced the details or timing of this. Some kind of credible evidence to put the evidence behind the allegations in doubt would be needed else this whole campaign is possibly sunk. CNN’s Tapper is happy to jump on this story asking leading questions. ETA: And many outlets that would decry HasanAbi as an anti-Semite are readily citing him speaking against Platner.
I think Platner has 48 hours to research to find if AIPAC or outside groups (not including Cheyenne Hunt & Reckoning Action, Racicot reached out to them supposedly) have unduly influenced the details or timing of this
Politico, the website that published the story originally, is owned by unapologetic pro-Israel billionaires
I dare ask - why believe by default? What’s happened to innocent until proven guilty?
I won’t reflexively deny the victim. Trust but request verification. Platner is definitely presumed innocent but this is one where we still need more info. And it’s not at the standard of a criminal proceeding to determine whether people would want someone representing them in the Senate or not - rather it’s more like a job interview.
When it’s time to vote blue: “Platner the oyster farmer?”
