Graham Platner ends Maine Senate campaign after sexual assault allegation

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    1. That’s how you can tell he was the Democratic nominee and not a member of another party. His numbers went down when the allegations came out instead of up

    2. beforedinnermints on

      anyway, see any good movies lately? I’m heading to Carolina Caroline right now. 

    3. Here’s hoping this leads to a Seven-of-Nine-got-Obama-elected situation.

      Edit: for the uninitiated… Jeri Ryan (who played Seven of Nine on Star Trek Voyager and Picard) used to be married to Jack Ryan. Jack’s 2004 senate run against Barack Obama received widespread media attention and early predictions said that Jack was going to win by a landslide. Unsealed documents detailed allegations that Jack Ryan wanted Jeri Ryan to perform sexual acts in public and pressured her to go to sex clubs with him (in New York, Paris and London IIRC). He was also truly abusive in other ways too. This led to Jack’s withdrawal from the campaign allowing Obama to win the seat.

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    4. LezbianaGrande on

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      Should’ve happened a dozen controversies ago.

    5. Positive_Lychee_7736 on

      You know, for the people shocked and disappointed by the accusations, I gotta ask, when he went to Iraq 3 times over the course of 3 years and then described those experiences as going there to kill people and it being so fun, what exactly did you think he was doing in Iraq?

    6. DissedFunction on

      if he was in the GOP he would be considered a presidential candidate.

      dems always eat their own so the corpracrats (gop lite) can stay in control.

    7. Christymapper71 on

      This what you do when sex scandal occurs. Glad to see at least one side get its. *ahem* Republicans 🙄

    8. WearyCopy5686 on

      Honestly he should’ve been gone after the Nazi tatto fiasco but I’m glad he’s gone.

    9. Good. He never should have gotten this far, where was the Democratic vetting process?

      Also, the hypocrisy infuriates me. Trump was accused of SA by multiple women, republicans stayed silent. Let him run for President. NY Post said nothing. Pretty much any republican accused just brushes it off and gets voted for. Fucking Ken Paxton is in Europe with his MISTRESS and polls say he’s leading.

      It’s just bullshit. How do you ever win when one side doesn’t play fair?

    10. Should’ve dropped when the allegations first came out but at least he finally dropped out.

    11. Finally. Took enough time.

      ETA: Downvoted weird…because this week alone solidified he can’t win and we need a winner to take Collins’ seat.