Graham Platner is a Maine Senate candidate whose party spent a year deciding his conduct toward women was a footnote right up until it wasn't.

A woman who previously dated Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner said he drunkenly forced her to have sex after she told him to stop, according to a Politico report released

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing a new allegation from a Maine woman who said he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago, which Platner denies.

Some rushed to defend the embattled Senate nominee, while others called to move on given the severity of the allegations.