{"id":75829,"date":"2026-07-07T11:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/how-could-democrats-replace-graham-platner-in-maines-senate-race-and-who-might-they-choose\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:58:27","slug":"how-could-democrats-replace-graham-platner-in-maines-senate-race-and-who-might-they-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/how-could-democrats-replace-graham-platner-in-maines-senate-race-and-who-might-they-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"How could Democrats replace Graham Platner in Maine\u2019s Senate race \u2013 and who might they choose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats weigh options as controversial Senate nominee faces calls to drop out of race after sexual assault allegation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/07\/graham-platner-democrats-senate-maine-trump-nato-us-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top Democrats are considering their options as Graham Platner, the party\u2019s candidate for US Senate in Maine, faces growing calls to withdraw after a sexual assault allegation.<\/p>\n<p>While Platner has denied the claims, first reported by Politico on Monday, they sparked a chorus of criticism. He said he was \u201ctaking the time to reflect on the best path forward\u201d in the wake of the story.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/07\/how-democrats-replace-graham-platner-maine-senate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats weigh options as controversial Senate nominee faces calls to drop out of race after sexual assault allegation US politics live \u2013 latest updates Top Democrats are considering their options as Graham Platner, the party\u2019s candidate for US Senate in Maine, faces growing calls to withdraw after a sexual assault allegation. While Platner has denied &#8230; <a title=\"How could Democrats replace Graham Platner in Maine\u2019s Senate race \u2013 and who might they choose?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/how-could-democrats-replace-graham-platner-in-maines-senate-race-and-who-might-they-choose\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How could Democrats replace Graham Platner in Maine\u2019s Senate race \u2013 and who might they choose?\">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-75829","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\/75829","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=75829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}