By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
The “path ahead” doesn’t look good.
The crucial, intermittently impressive, but perpetually imperiled U.S. Senate candidacy of Maine’s progressive oysterman Graham Platner hit new shoals today after Politico published allegations from an ex-girlfriend that he sexually assaulted her five years ago. CNN later reported the same. The fresh allegations, on the heels of an assortment of damaging information involving his background, his views, and most of all his treatment of women, has raised the simmering fears among Democrats in and beyond Maine about his candidacy to a full boil, with time running out for a possible replacement for him on the November ballot.
