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A bombshell rape allegation has thrown Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign into turmoil, but some of his most progressive supporters in Congress are standing by him.<\/p>\n

At least three Democratic lawmakers \u2014 Sens. Bernie Sanders,<\/a> I-Vt., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. \u2014 have yet to withdraw their support or call on Platner to end his campaign after Maine resident Jenny Racicot, 41, accused him of rape in interviews with Politico and CNN.<\/a><\/p>\n

Asked by Fox News Digital about Racicot’s allegation that Platner in 2021 barged into her home while intoxicated and forced her to have unprotected sex, none of the lawmakers responded by publication time.<\/p>\n

The muted response marks the latest sign that some progressives are sticking with Platner despite mounting scandals threatening the viability of his Senate bid.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATS BREAK WITH SCANDAL-PLAGUED GRAHAM PLATNER, WARN OF ‘CIVIL WAR’ IN PARTY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Some Platner allies have viewed his rise as part of a broader fight over the Democratic Party’s direction, with the Senate hopeful embodying a more populist, far-left vision.<\/p>\n

Maine Democrats rejected Platner’s primary rival, Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, who was aligned with the party’s establishment, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,<\/a> D-N.Y. Mills suspended her campaign weeks before the June primary amid poor polling and fundraising struggles.<\/p>\n

Other leading leftists, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren,<\/a> D-Mass., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., quickly rescinded their endorsements of Platner and called on him to exit the race. Similarly, Schumer and Senate Democrats\u2019 campaign arm, which had only endorsed Platner after his June primary victory, demanded the immediate suspension of his campaign.<\/p>\n

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who previously called a physical abuse allegation by former Platner girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield “a lot of nothing” in an interview with NOTUS, <\/a>withdrew his support for Platner on Tuesday following Racicot\u2019s rape accusation.<\/p>\n

His statement comes as Democrats face mounting scrutiny over their responses to the accusations against Platner, after years of taking a hard line on sexual misconduct allegations.<\/p>\n

“A lot of people owe apologies to Lyndsey Fifield \u2014 most notably Sheldon Whitehouse, who dismissed her allegations on the grounds that she worked for \u2018right-wing political operations,\u2019” journalist Josh Barro wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

Sanders, a leader of the party\u2019s leftist base who campaigned with Platner several times, was notably silent after Racicot\u2019s rape allegation.<\/a> He continued to support the Senate hopeful after Fifield\u2019s allegations first emerged in early June and similarly during reports that Platner sent sexually explicit text messages to at least half a dozen women while married.<\/p>\n

“We got a housing crisis. People can\u2019t afford healthcare, they can\u2019t afford groceries, they can\u2019t afford to fill up their gas tanks. And I think it\u2019s important for us to focus on the issues facing working families a little bit more than Graham Platner\u2019s marriage,” Sanders told reporters in June in remarks obtained by NBC.<\/a><\/p>\n

Murphy, too, publicly defended Platner after news broke about Platner\u2019s infidelity to his wife, Amy Gertner, who he married in 2023. He continued to embrace the Maine Democrat\u2019s Senate bid after Fifield and other women accused Platner of abuse.<\/p>\n

SANDERS CAUGHT ON CAMERA SNAPPING AT REPORTER OVER PLATNER\u2019S POSTS: \u2018GET A BETTER JOB\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And amid the piling up of controversies, Murphy suggested that Platner still had more character than incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.<\/p>\n

“Graham Platner is somebody who served our country, he\u2019s served his community; he\u2019s also made mistakes, and he\u2019s admitted that,” Murphy said during an interview with CBS News<\/a> in May. “Character also involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country.”<\/p>\n

“And this race is going to be a contrast between somebody who has put his life on the line for this country, against somebody who is literally empowering the moral hollowing-out of our nation from the White House,” he went on.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Van Hollen, a progressive senator with leadership ambitions, went to the mat to defend Platner<\/a> amid scrutiny over his Nazi-linked tattoo and controversial online posts in which he declared himself a communist, disparaged law enforcement, black people and white rural Americans and mocked a teenage girl’s suicide.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s been very clear that he went into combat on behalf of the United States, he went through a really rough period, PTSD-type period,” Van Hollen told Punchbowl News<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n

“He himself said there are lots of things he’s done and said that he completely regrets, and I do believe people should have second chances and that people can learn from their mistakes, and I think he’s been doing that,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/sanders-remains-quiet-pressure-grows-platner-quit-amid-rape-claim <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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