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BREAKING: Graham Platner Withdraws From Maine Senate Race After Sexual Assault Allegations

Virginia Grace McKinnon

Maine Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate Graham Platner has formally announced his withdrawal from the race following sexual assault allegations.

On Friday afternoon, Platner posted the letter he wrote to the Maine Department of the Secretary of State on X. 

“In submitting this letter today, I seek to further the movement we have built together and the future we believe in,” Platner wrote. “My name may have been on the ballot, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine. As such, please consider this notice as my official withdrawal from consideration for this office,” he continued.

The Maine secretary of state’s office quickly confirmed it received the formal notice. “The Secretary of State’s Office today confirmed that a formal notice has been received from U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner. A public declaration is not an official withdrawal, and a candidate must formally withdraw in writing to the Elections office, including signature,” read the press........

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