{"id":2862,"date":"2026-07-06T21:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:37:38","slug":"critics-scorch-platner-over-taking-time-video-after-new-accusation-upends-maine-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2862","title":{"rendered":"Critics scorch Platner over &#8216;taking time&#8217; video after new accusation upends Maine race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Maine Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner is under fire after releasing a video declaring that new allegations against him are false, yet he is \u201ctaking time to reflect\u201d on a path forward.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2860\">Army vet investigated for sending postcard to Florida officials<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Politico on Monday afternoon reported that a woman who dated Platner, Jenny Racicot, \u201csays he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRacicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner,\u201d Politico reported, \u201cfor more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to social media eleven minutes after the Politico story dropped, Platner says, \u201cI wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me. Any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he and his supporters \u201cwere united in a love of Maine, a belief that our politics must change, in a focus on defeating Susan Collins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful the political reality will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose were the goals when we launched this campaign. And they remain my goals today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2858\">Stephen Moore stumped on live TV as CNN host rattles of list of Trump corruption<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout it all, you never turned your back on me. And I will not turn my back on you now. Every one of you deserves to see that vision come to fruition and see Susan Collins defeated. And we will use every tool at our disposal to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bulwark\u2019s Tim Miller, a political commentator who served as the communications director for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign, blasted Platner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry but \u2018we are taking time to reflect on the best path forward\u2019 is not an option on the table,\u201d Miller wrote. \u201cEither it\u2019s false and you campaign with vigor or it\u2019s true and you get out \/ apologize to everyone you let down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Ryan Grim, commenting on Platner\u2019s video, noted that Platner \u201cstrongly suggests he is considering dropping out. Already Troy Jackson and Chellie Pingree, both gubernatorial candidates, are being kicked around in Maine circles as potential replacements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several others, including Puck News\u2019 Peter Hamby, predicted Platner will be dropping out.<\/p>\n<p>Platner had postponed several campaign events before the Politico story was published.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2856\">Trump sparks fury after posting video of Muslim kindergartners in hijabs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner is under fire after releasing a video declaring that new allegations against him are false, yet he is \u201ctaking time to reflect\u201d on a path forward.Politico on Monday afternoon reported that a woman who dated Platner, Jenny Racicot, \u201csays he forced he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Critics scorch Platner over &#039;taking time&#039; 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