According to the standards Democrats set in 2018, Graham Platner must drop out of the 2026 Senate race in Maine. The fact that Democrats haven’t mobilized to force him out of the race already proves that their “believe all women” canard was always a political sham.The New York Times has covered a set of allegations made against Platner by ex-girlfriends about his conduct, including physically putting hands on them and intimidating them. Platner denies those allegations, which does not mean much given his shaky track record with the truth, while the main woman interviewed for the story, Lyndsey Fifield, is now claiming that the outlet whitewashed the story and left out details that would have made Platner look worse.
(The outlet did include the accusation that Platner fantasized about non-sexually raping hypothetical male home intruders and talked about how rape is a form of power. Platner’s team did not deny that particular tale.)
What is most notable here is that Fifield’s accusations are corroborated through text message screenshots, diary entries, and past conversations with friends. That means, even with Platner’s denials (and admissions that he was going through a “very dark period”), there is more corroboration for these accusations than there was for the sexual assault accusations against 2018 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
