Will Graham Platner drop out before the Midterms?July 11

Assaf Rosenzweig Graham Plattner, the anti-Israel Democratic candidate in the Maine Senate race who, among other things, praised Hamas and once had a Nazi tattoo, announced tonight that he was withdrawing from the race after a woman he was in a relationship with said in an interview that he raped her. Plattner denied the allegations, but was under heavy pressure within the Democratic Party to withdraw

Live: Platner’s exit from the race marks the final blow to a campaign that was shaken by controversy from nearly the start. While Platner built a movement-like following among Democrats, his series of controversies led him to lose the confidence of the party’s donors, top officials and the state’s crucial independents, who polling showed had questions about his character. In some ways, the race became a microcosm of the larger fight that’s been roiling the party for years between an insurgent left seeking fighters and an establishment worried about the risk of running untested candidates in key races.

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