I find Platner's suggestion that the accusations are politically motivated disgusting and disqualifying
“My part of the story was just a read-over,” Racicot said in an interview. “And the story was Lyndsey, and the accusations of her being politically motivated.”
Racicot said she was torn over coming forward in part because she agrees with Platner politically.
“One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,” she said. “I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”
...Racicot also shared details about the alleged assault to the man she dated after Platner, who she began dating in 2022. The man, who was granted anonymity out of concern for his personal privacy, told POLITICO that Racicot had told him in bits and pieces about a bad experience with Platner before confiding the full details of what had happened in 2023. His account of what Racicot told him about the incident matched what Racicot told POLITICO.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/06/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737
In a statement, the Platner campaign reiterated his denial and accused critics of trying to drive him out of the race.
...Platner's response lumps this latest accusation with others, which he's also failed to directly address, and does little here except denigrate his accuser, who, it appears, never called him a "Nazi, a war criminal, or a communist," and has expressed support for his politics.
This is a reprehensible response, and his accusatory defenses are not any responsible or reasonable measure of accountability to these claims.
I have no vote in his state, and I realize that the political effect of posting this on social media response amounts to little except trolling him. But his accusers deserve better than these hurtful deflections which I personally find unfitting for someone who would be contributing to making our nation's laws in the U.S. Senate.
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The response sounds just like typical Justice Democrats PAC stylings: The establishment throws the kitchen sink at us, conspiring to stop at nothing to defeat us because our movement terrifies them blah blah blah... Too bad they didn't include the part about the smokey backroom where Democratic establishment corruption monsters enjoy canapés and pink champagne cocktails with the donor class oligarch billionaires, chuckling about ignoring working families.
