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Graham Platner’s rape allegation: Letters to the Editor — July 8, 2026

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The Issue: Democrats calling for Graham Platner to drop out of the Senate race following rape allegations.

The progressive wing of the Democratic Party spent months making one excuse after the other for disgraced US Senate candidate Graham Platner, and it worked (“Platner ‘Rape,’ ” July 7).

He became Maine’s Democratic nominee. But now they are calling for accountability after an ex-girlfriend’s rape allegation against him.

What do these hard-core left-wingers want to have happen to Platner if he’s found guilty? Who would arrest him? Who would keep him removed from society? Who would make sure the victim has closure? Because the ideology growing in the modern Democratic Party would prevent all of these actions from taking place.

It’s not a coincidence that a party connected to the breakdown of the law would attract someone with such serious accusations of criminal behavior.

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Could Dems’ cowardice be more clear? An SS tattoo........

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