Graham Platner

Platner was expected to speak about labor history and the importance of unions in the U.S. Event organizers were urged not to let him speak by the former girlfriend and another woman who has accused him of domestic abuse

Abortion rights group endorses Democrat Troy Jackson in critical Maine Senate race

The event is listed on the Hancock County Democrats website, though the latter has emphasized it was not involved in planning the rally

Jackson, a one-time logger and a former state Senate president, was chosen a couple of weeks ago by Maine Democrats to replace embattled oysterman Graham Platner, who won the June Democratic Senate nomination in a landslide before imploding and dropping out of the race last month amid rape allegations that he denied

Collins has represented Maine in the Senate since 1997, winning her fifth term in 2020 by nearly 9 percentage points

The Republican Party leadership in Ohio can still prove it meant what it said about Graham Platner

The Maine Senate election spun out of control for Democrats earlier this month when sexual assault allegations emerged against the party’s official candidate, Graham Platner

Democrats in Maine have reset a Senate race seen as critical to their party’s chances of retaking the chamber after an improvised scramble to swap out a damaged candidate, Graham Platner, for a new one, Troy Jackson, after a wild 17 days

Platner withdrew his bid earlier this month following allegations of sexual abuse

Morris Katz helped Zohran Mamdani win, and then tried to do the same for Graham Platner

Susan Collins as Democrats scramble to salvage a top pickup opportunity after Graham Platner's campaign collapsed

Plus, Rebecca Shabad and Frank Thorp V report on Darline Graham’s decision to seek a full Senate term

Troy Jackson, a progressive, has built a clear edge in Maine’s abbreviated nomination process to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic Senate nominee after he dropped out this month under pressure from party leaders

The answers from the eight participating Democrats showed an effort to capture some of Platner’s momentum and messaging — even as they sought to stake out their own candidacies amid a scramble to find another party nominee

The romantic encounters reportedly occurred during Gallego's decade representing Phoenix in the House of Representatives from 2015 through 2025

But Democrats’ pipe dream to seize the upper chamber has become more realistic as the party fields a slate of star recruits with proven fundraising prowess — and as Republicans continue to grapple with high costs and an ongoing war in Iran

And a disgraced former nominee looming over it all, haunting the party’s hopes of starting anew

Candidates gunning to win the Democratic nomination must file with the state party by Wednesday to get on the ballot

LePage is aiming to flip the Democrat-controlled open seat in a mostly rural district President Donald Trump carried in the past three presidential elections

About 600 delegates will select a replacement at a state convention later this month

After the New York Times published an article in early June about the Senate candidate Graham Platner’s treatment of the women he dated, the story’s main source reacted with disappointment and anger

Susan Collins (R-Maine) after an ex-girlfriend came forward and alleged that the former candidate sexually assaulted her in 2021

The Maine Democratic Party plans a nominating convention before the July 27 replacement deadline, with roughly 600 delegates set to choose among a field that includes Jackson, former state CDC director Nirav Shah, and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows

Last month, as accusations that Graham Platner of Maine had demeaned and threatened women consumed his Senate campaign, his left-wing allies closed ranks around him

At least half a dozen Democrats have entered the race, including three people who ran and lost — or withdrew — in the Senate primary against Platner and three people who unsuccessfully ran in the party’s gubernatorial primary

During an appearance on Fox News' "America's Newsroom," co-host Dana Perino asked Dingell whether Democrats mishandled allegations first raised by a former girlfriend of Platner

Roughly 300 members of the Democratic Socialists of America have signed a letter asking that D.S.A. candidates and elected officials drop Morris Katz and Fight Agency, the consultant and firm closely associated with Graham Platner’s disgraced and abandoned Senate campaign in Maine

Dana Bash breaks down Graham Platner's 11-minute video dropping out of Maine's Senate race and blasting party leaders CNN

These were the parting words of Richard Nixon after he was forced to resign the presidency over the Watergate imbroglio in 1974

It took an allegation of sexual assault—one he flatly denies—for Maine’s scandal-hit Democratic Senate nominee to finally come under enough pressure from his own side to say he'll suspend his campaign and withdraw this week

Instead, she introduces herself by her middle name, Shelly

Shah became a familiar figure to Mainers while leading the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as director of the Maine CDC, a role that gave him broad statewide name recognition before entering politics

As pressure mounts on Democratic candidate Graham Platner to drop out of the Maine Senate race, numerous outlets are floating an unlikely ― albeit globally recognized ― Pine Tree State native to replace him

Neera Tanden, a political consultant and former Biden adviser, criticized how former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner handled his dramatic exit from the race on Wednesday

The shaky ceasefire in the Middle East appears to have all but collapsed, with U.S. President Donald Trump declaring it was "over" and Washington conducting fresh strikes on Iran

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But Democratic Party elders have spent more time and effort trying to manipulate primaries than they have actually understanding why voters are so annoyed