Continuing article on Breaking News
They joined a growing chorus of Democrats calling on Platner to end his campaign. The Maine Democratic Party said he should drop out. Many of his most prominent supporters in Congress withdrew their endorsements. Influencers and activist groups that had supported him said he had no way forward.
The pressure on Platner comes one week ahead of the July 13 deadline for general election candidates to withdraw from the ballot. If he did so, the state Democratic Party would then have two weeks to put forward a replacement candidate.
For her part, Collins denounced the allegations against her Senate rival but refused to weigh in on the internal Democratic Party dynamics at play. “These allegations are appalling. Nevertheless, it is not up to me to choose the Democratic nominee for Senate,” Collins said in a statement shared by a campaign spokesperson.
Platner, in a two-minute, direct-to-camera video posted on social media, did not say whether he would stay in the race. He called the allegations “troubling, serious and false.”
“Any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false,” he said.
(Is that saying he did it but she wanted it or it never happened?)
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