{"id":75904,"date":"2026-07-09T08:54:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/trump-says-democrats-replacing-platner-is-very-hard-for-them-to-do\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:54:57","slug":"trump-says-democrats-replacing-platner-is-very-hard-for-them-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/trump-says-democrats-replacing-platner-is-very-hard-for-them-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Democrats replacing Platner is ‘very hard for them to do’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> remarked that congressional Democrats would have a hard time replacing former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner after the embattled candidate suspended his campaign Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“It’s very hard for them to do. It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman. A lot of people say big falsehoods. It’s… he’s in a bind. He’s in a bind. But, should they be able to do it? Well, I guess he’s going to lose. I imagine he’s going to lose,” Trump said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One before returning to the United States from the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.<\/p>\n

Platner suspended his campaign Wednesday evening after numerous Democrats and liberals who had previously backed him pulled their support and encouraged him to drop out of the race.<\/p>\n

PLATNER DROPS OUT OF CRUCIAL SENATE RACE AFTER BOMBSHELL RAPE ALLEGATION TORPEDOES CAMPAIGN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The calls for his exit came after Politico published a bombshell report<\/a> detailing rape allegations against Platner. In the story, Platner’s ex-girlfriend Jenny Racicot alleged he forced his way into her home and sexually assaulted her in 2021.<\/p>\n

The Politico report followed a New York Times story<\/a> that described another physical abuse allegation against Platner, this one from Lyndsey Fifield, a digital strategist for Republican political campaigns and organizations.<\/p>\n

Trump alluded to Fifield’s allegations, wondering aloud why her allegations weren’t a catalyst for outrage in the same manner that Racicot’s were.<\/p>\n

PLATNER’S LATEST ACCUSER CLAIMS THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE CANDIDATE ‘ABSOLUTELY’ RAPED HER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s very interesting when the Republican woman came out with the same charge, nobody believed her… when this woman came out everybody believed her, right?” Trump asked reporters.<\/p>\n

Fifield criticized the New York Times’ handling<\/a> of her accusations, spotlighting the paper’s focus on her history of working for Republicans.<\/p>\n

“I’m out here on my own, I’m the only one photographed and there’s 11 paragraphs of my work history. Like, what is this?” Fifield told Fox News Digital in a Wednesday interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Platner maintained that his suspension was not an admission of guilt and denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

While Platner suspended his campaign Wednesday, he has not officially dropped out to clear a path for a new candidate. Under Maine state law, he would have to drop out by July 13 to allow the Democratic Party to put a new candidate on the ballot in his stead.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital contacted the Platner campaign for comment.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood and Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump remarked that congressional Democrats would have a hard time replacing former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner after the embattled candidate suspended his campaign Wednesday. “It’s very hard for them to do. It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman. A lot of people say big falsehoods. It’s… he’s … 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-75904","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\/75904","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=75904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}