{"id":75886,"date":"2026-07-08T20:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/graham-platner-ends-maine-senate-campaign-after-sexual-assault-allegation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:54:56","slug":"graham-platner-ends-maine-senate-campaign-after-sexual-assault-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/graham-platner-ends-maine-senate-campaign-after-sexual-assault-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Platner ends Maine Senate campaign after sexual assault allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic nominee, dogged by controversy since entering contest, says \u2018for the movement to continue, it can\u2019t be me\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/06\/graham-platner-assault-allegation\">Woman accuses Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner of sexual assault<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, is suspending his campaign following sexual assault allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Platner announced his decision in an 11-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grahamformaine\/status\/2075009677495058687\">video<\/a> posted to social media on Wednesday evening, in which he angrily accused the Democratic establishment and corporate media of \u201cusing these allegations to take away all of the things we need to run a campaign\u201d and acting \u201cas judge, jury and executioner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/08\/graham-platner-maine-senate-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic nominee, dogged by controversy since entering contest, says \u2018for the movement to continue, it can\u2019t be me\u2019 Woman accuses Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner of sexual assault Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, is suspending his campaign following sexual assault allegations. Platner announced his decision in an 11-minute video posted &#8230; <a title=\"Graham Platner ends Maine Senate campaign after sexual assault allegation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/graham-platner-ends-maine-senate-campaign-after-sexual-assault-allegation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Graham Platner ends Maine Senate campaign after sexual assault allegation\">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-75886","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\/75886","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=75886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}