“My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine,” insisted Graham Platner on X, accompanied by an 11-minute video announcing the suspension of his U.S. Senate campaign, five days before the deadline to replace him on the ballot. It took credible rape allegations from a fellow socialist to derail the aspirations of a self-described communist with a Nazi tattoo, but, well, welcome to the 2026 Democrat Party.

The “very serious allegations,” Platner said, are “all false. The things that have been claimed did not happen. It’s not real.”

For the record, the accusation published Monday, in which Jenny Racicot claimed that, five years ago, Platner unlawfully entered her home while drunk and raped her, is just an allegation at this point. It may be astonishing to the Believe All Women™ crowd to know that women are also humans and sometimes lie. Even if it’s not a total lie, they sometimes just regret last night’s fling. We don’t know for sure if Racicot is telling the full truth.

Whatever happened with Platner, however, fits the pattern of his poor character, which is why it finally brought him down.

My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine. pic.twitter.com/RKVyLU76tm

— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) July 9, 2026

In some respects, Platner has no one to blame but himself.

Like a true socialist, however, he blames everyone else.

He complained, “I learned about this through press inquiries with no time to truly respond, no time for investigations before a corporate media system and the political establishment got to act as judge, jury, and executioner.”

“It’s not the false allegations, though, that have brought us to where we are,” he continued. “It’s the fact that they’re being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure on us.”

“For the movement to continue, it can’t be me. For that reason, we are suspending campaign operations,” Platner said in his video. “This is incredibly difficult because I know that some will think it’s an admission of guilt, and it most certainly is not. We’re not doing it because of the allegations. We’re doing it because of the structures that are being taken away from us by those in power.” That means money. He explained, “Those in power who have the ability to do so are using these allegations as an excuse to take away all the things that we need to run a campaign.”

You see, the real victim here is Graham Platner. Like Jenny’s lousy boyfriend in “Forrest Gump” lamely protested, “It’s just this war and that lyin’ son of a b**ch Johnson!”

At no point did Platner make any apologies. He only lashed out. The odd thing about that, though, is that Platner didn’t have to be the victim — i.e., he didn’t have to drop out of the race and go back to selling oysters to his mom. He protested about “structures” and all that, but he still had cards to play. He could have denied the allegations, stayed in the race, and let the voters — not the smoke-filled back rooms of the Democrat Party — decide his fate.

Maybe Racicot’s accusation really did take Platner by surprise because it’s not true. Democrats and the Leftmedia had, after all, promoted him as a hero despite similar (albeit lesser) allegations.

Or maybe he wasn’t surprised at all. As I said on Tuesday, if you’re a guy seeking the Senate nomination from the #MeToo party, you should stop and think if any woman has ever told you to never contact her again because you raped her. If the answer is yes, maybe sit this one out.

By the way, speaking of sleazeballs who should have known better, Platner’s first video on Monday sounds remarkably similar to the one posted by Eric Swalwell when he dropped out of the California governor’s race amidst similar allegations.

Democrats and their Leftmedia propagandists propped up a man who called himself a communist, sported a Nazi tattoo, and had a history of saying and doing awful things to women — and now they’re somehow shocked to discover his worst sin. Furthermore, it’s almost hilarious that the person most surprised to discover that Graham Platner is a bad man is Graham Platner.

Since this is all about Democrats, I’ll give the last word to one of them: John Fetterman. “The trash took itself out,” he thundered. “He’ll be remembered [as] the guy that spent 10 years on Kik, the [social media] platform that’s a predator’s paradise.” He concluded, “That’s his legacy. He will be remembered as an accused rapist.”

Ouch.

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