POLITICO reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.

There’s no way he can continue.

Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/06/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737

Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine after winning the June 2026 primary, has cancelled or postponed multiple upcoming campaign events including town halls in Augusta, Gorham, and Sanford.