{"id":75881,"date":"2026-07-08T18:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/democrats-accuse-graham-platner-of-trying-to-put-thumb-on-the-scale-of-process-to-replace-him\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:55:56","slug":"democrats-accuse-graham-platner-of-trying-to-put-thumb-on-the-scale-of-process-to-replace-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/democrats-accuse-graham-platner-of-trying-to-put-thumb-on-the-scale-of-process-to-replace-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats accuse Graham Platner of trying to put \u2018thumb on the scale\u2019 of process to replace him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frustration mounts that Maine nominee has not withdrawn over sexual assault claim as Trump says Platner \u2018in a bind\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Graham Platner, the embattled Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, has been accused of trying to influence the process of picking his replacement as frustration mounts that he has not yet withdrawn from the race.<\/p>\n<p>Platner has publicly said he is \u201ctaking the time to reflect on the best path forward\u201d after an allegation of sexual assault, which he denied, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/06\/graham-platner-assault-allegation\">published on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/08\/graham-platner-senate-calls-withdraw\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frustration mounts that Maine nominee has not withdrawn over sexual assault claim as Trump says Platner \u2018in a bind\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Graham Platner, the embattled Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, has been accused of trying to influence the process of picking his replacement as frustration mounts &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats accuse Graham Platner of trying to put \u2018thumb on the scale\u2019 of process to replace him\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/democrats-accuse-graham-platner-of-trying-to-put-thumb-on-the-scale-of-process-to-replace-him\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats accuse Graham Platner of trying to put \u2018thumb on the scale\u2019 of process to replace him\">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-75881","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\/75881","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=75881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}