{"id":359798,"date":"2026-07-09T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/what-happens-now-that-graham-platner-has-ended-his-senate-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:00:49","slug":"what-happens-now-that-graham-platner-has-ended-his-senate-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/what-happens-now-that-graham-platner-has-ended-his-senate-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens now that Graham Platner has ended his Senate campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/h5NLlvuKMkc\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"What happens now that Graham Platner has ended his Senate campaign?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5NLlvuKMkc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, is suspending his campaign following sexual assault allegations. Here\u2019s what happens next.<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>After a campaign already plagued by scandals, Platner faced fresh scrutiny on Monday after a woman who previously dated him made allegations in Politico that he forced her to have sex nearly five years ago despite repeated objections.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Racicot, 41, said she had an on\u2011and\u2011off relationship with Platner for more than two years. She alleges that in late 2021, an intoxicated Platner entered her home uninvited and forced himself on her. She said she cut off contact after the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Platner denied the allegations and announced his decision to end his campaign in an 11-minute video posted to social media on Wednesday evening, in which he angrily accused the Democratic establishment and corporate media of acting \u201cas judge, jury and executioner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>#grahamplatner #usmidterms #uselections #politics #democrats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, is suspending his campaign following sexual assault allegations. Here\u2019s what happens next. Subscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 After a campaign already plagued by scandals, Platner faced fresh scrutiny on Monday after a woman who previously dated him made allegations in Politico that he forced her to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-359798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What happens now that Graham Platner has ended his Senate campaign? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch What happens now that Graham Platner has ended his Senate campaign? for free, here on News ISC. 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