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Stephen King Stands By Scandal Plagued Progressive As Dems Turn Away

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As Democrats stampeded away from Graham Platner, Stephen King became the most famous name still standing near the wreckage of his Maine Senate campaign.

King’s X posts came after Politico published Jenny Racicot’s allegation that Platner sexually assaulted her, a report that triggered a rapid collapse of Democratic support.

“Graham Platner may drop out. (I hope he doesn’t, but.),” King wrote. “Meanwhile, the Abuser in Chief just keeps on keepin’ on.”

A second King post widened the defense from Platner to Washington itself, arguing that full exposure of lawmakers’ private lives would empty Congress and invoking Jesus’ warning about casting the first stone.

“Tell you what,” King tweeted. “If you knew the whole truth about everyone in the Senate and House of Reps, those chambers would be dead empty. Jesus said, ‘Let him without sin cast the first stone.’”

That made King’s public patience the oddest note in a day otherwise defined by Democratic retreat.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., turned the pressure into an institutional threat, with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee warning it “will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot.”

Platner’s own state party also urged him out of the contest with Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., one of Platner’s highest-profile national supporters, reversed himself and abandoned the campaign.

In his break with Platner, Khanna described sexual assault and violence against women as disqualifying.

“I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line,” Khanna wrote. “These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., had once sold Platner to voters in strikingly personal terms. Before he secured the nomination, Warren called him “my kind of man.”

By Monday evening, Warren’s support had become a call for him to step aside.

“With so much at stake, the best path forward is for Graham Platner to step aside as the Democratic nominee and address these serious allegations outside this Senate race.”

Racicot, 41, told Politico that an on-and-off relationship of more than two years ended in 2021 with Platner allegedly entering her rural Maine home uninvited and raping her.

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In her account, Platner was “deeply intoxicated,” ignored repeated demands to stop and forced himself on her.

Racicot described the moment she said the encounter stopped being consensual.

“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she told Politico. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”

Other women’s claims, Racicot said, helped end her silence. “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 told Politico.

“I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”

Politico cited materials from Racicot and others who had previously heard her account.

Later Monday, Racicot repeated the accusation on Jake Tapper’s CNN program and used the phrase “by dictionary definition” for what she said happened.

“I thought, here’s a man who was drunk and who, by dictionary definition, raped me. And he’s blaming drunk women,” Racicot told the outlet.

Racicot also framed the allegation as part of a pattern of appalling behaviour, pointing to Platner’s past remarks about women and sexual violence.

She described him as “blackout drunk” during the alleged encounter. In Racicot’s telling, brief apologies came during the encounter, but they did not end it.

Even leftist streamer Hasan Piker treated the Politico evidence trail as a breaking point, zeroing in on Racicot’s documents, therapist emails and messages to an acquaintance during a Twitch stream.

Piker’s reaction was immediate. “That is curtains … That is the trifecta, OK? That is the trifecta of a reliable allegation,” he said.

Piker noted that the documentation made the allegation impossible for him to dismiss.

Earlier reports may have raised character questions, Piker argued, but the new allegation crossed a different line.

“But this is something beyond that … It’s irredeemable,” he said.

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., added another Democratic voice calling for Platner to exit.

Platner answered the report with a two-minute video denial on social media.

“These allegations are troubling, serious, and false,” he said. “Any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false.”

Even his denial conceded that the accusation had changed the campaign’s immediate reality.

“So, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we are taking time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins,” Platner said.

For Democrats, the Politico report landed on top of months of Platner baggage, including offensive deleted posts, a chest tattoo likened to a Nazi symbol, his presence on an app popular among sexual predators and prior abuse allegations from women.

The party’s escape window closes July 13, the deadline for swapping Platner out for another Democrat.

Collins kept her distance from the Democratic nomination fight while condemning the allegation.

“These allegations are appalling. Nevertheless, it is not up to me to choose the Democratic nominee for Senate,” she said.

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