Maine Senate
On June 9, Maine Democrats held a ranked-choice primary and gave Graham Platner 72.1 percent of the vote on the first ballot — 156,084 votes to Janet Mills's 19.2 percent, though Mills had already withdrawn and her name stayed on the ballot anyway. David Costello took
elections
Graham Platner posted his withdrawal video on a Wednesday afternoon, in the flat cadence of a man reading a hostage note he'd been handed rather than one he'd written. He was not, he said, admitting to anything. He called the assault allegation against him "categorically
party process
On Monday, Politico published an allegation from Jenny Racicot, forty-one, of Maine, who says that in 2021, two years into an on-and-off relationship that began on Bumble, Graham Platner showed up at her home unannounced and drunk and forced himself on her. Platner calls the allegation categorically false. He also