{"id":75808,"date":"2026-07-06T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/maine-democratic-senate-candidate-graham-platner-denies-new-allegations-of-sexual-assault\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:55:56","slug":"maine-democratic-senate-candidate-graham-platner-denies-new-allegations-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/maine-democratic-senate-candidate-graham-platner-denies-new-allegations-of-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner denies new allegations of sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is denying a new allegation of sexual assault, an explosive development injecting tumult into a race that is central to the Democratic Party\u2019s path to winning back the Senate. Despite the denial, Platner said in a video that he is taking \u201ctime to reflect on the best path forward\u201d with his candidacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is denying a new allegation of sexual assault, an explosive development injecting tumult into a race that is central to the Democratic Party\u2019s path to winning back the Senate. Despite the denial, Platner said in a video that he is taking \u201ctime to reflect on the best path forward\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner denies new allegations of sexual assault\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/maine-democratic-senate-candidate-graham-platner-denies-new-allegations-of-sexual-assault\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner denies new allegations of sexual assault\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}