Rape allegations: Yesterday, Graham Platner—who is trying to unseat Susan Collins from her U.S. Senate seat, and who already won the Democratic primary, positioning him quite well to flip that seat from red to blue come November—faced the most serious allegations yet: that he had raped a woman.
Jenny Racicot met Platner via a dating app in 2019, starting an on-again, off-again relationship with him. In 2021, she alleges that he assaulted her—allegations Politico broke yesterday, that Racicot discussed on CNN.
