{"id":358853,"date":"2026-07-07T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/heavily-intoxicated-woman-says-senate-nominee-raped-her-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:00:08","slug":"heavily-intoxicated-woman-says-senate-nominee-raped-her-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/heavily-intoxicated-woman-says-senate-nominee-raped-her-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heavily intoxicated&#8217;: Woman says Senate nominee raped her in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/Hz5Nv4-DAnU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"'Heavily intoxicated': Woman says Senate nominee raped her in 2021\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hz5Nv4-DAnU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A woman said Monday that Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, entered her home without permission and raped her while he was heavily intoxicated nearly five years ago when they were in a casual dating relationship \u2013 an allegation Platner denies.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Jenny Racicot describes meeting Platner in 2021<br \/>\n2:23 Does she have political motivations for making these claims?<br \/>\n4:35 Jenny describes what she saw in his eyes as the alleged assault occurred<br \/>\n7:24 Platner seemed aware that what he was doing was wrong at times<br \/>\n9:11 What happened after the alleged assault<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#election #grahamplatner #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman said Monday that Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, entered her home without permission and raped her while he was heavily intoxicated nearly five years ago when they were in a casual dating relationship \u2013 an allegation Platner denies. 0:00 Jenny Racicot describes meeting Platner in 2021 2:23 Does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-358853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Heavily intoxicated&#039;: Woman says Senate nominee raped her in 2021 | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch &#039;Heavily intoxicated&#039;: Woman says Senate nominee raped her in 2021 for free, here on News ISC. 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