The Machine Gets Its Man in Maine
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for Senate — whose campaign received record vote totals in the June 9 primary — has suspended his campaign.
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for Senate — whose campaign received record vote totals in the June 9 primary — has suspended his campaign following a Politico article featuring “credible accusations” of sexual assault against him.
UPDATED: July 8 5pm EDT: Drop Site has the text Platner’s accuser sent him that Politico left out of their story. That’s at the bottom of the post.
UPDATED 2: JULY 8 8:30 PM EDT: The Hill reports Platner has dropped out of the race. There goes any leverage his campaign had to influence the choice of the nominee.
The Usual Caveats Apply
As always, I’m covering this in the hopes of providing a one-stop window into a race that has national (and thus international) implications and what it tells us about the American electorate and the forces attempting to sway it.
This is not an endorsement of any candidate, regardless of my (obvious) personal sympathies, or even of the American electoral system, which is impossibly corrupt and has led to the bought-and-paid-for US Congress being functionally impotent.
Americans won’t vote our way out of the polycrisis, so don’t get your hopes up.