Stephen King hopes Platner doesn't drop out of Senate race following explosive sexual assault allegation

FOX News ^ | July 07, 2026 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

[Red Badger]

Liberal author and famed Maine writer Stephen King is rallying behind embattled Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner on Monday amid growing calls for him to drop out of the race.

The political landscape was rocked Monday after a sexual assault allegation surfaced against Platner. Jenny Racicot, one of Platner's exes, claimed to Politico he drunkenly entered her home in 2021 and raped her. Platner denied the accusations.

While Platner's future in the Maine Senate race hangs in the balance, the iconic creator of "The Shining" and "It" is hoping he doesn't throw in the towel.

"Graham Platner may drop out. (I hope he doesn't, but.) Meanwhile, the Abuser in Chief just keeps on keepin' on," King wrote on X. The author, an outspoken Trump critic, was alluding to the various sexual misconduct allegations leveled against the president, which he has long denied.

[Red Badger]

Everything they have accused Trump of doing, Platner has actually done multiple times!

This is karma for the Democrat party................

[Red Badger]

Graham Platner is the Wilford Brimley of politics........

[volare737]

I hope that scumbag doesn’t drop out either. He even looks just like a scumbag right out of ‘central casting’!

[No name given]

“Abuser in chief”?? He’s thinking of Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.

[MMusson]

Then Stephen won’t be the creepiest guy in Maine.

[No name given]

Big time. Just like Bill Clinton.

[misterdarcey]

Agreed. I want to see Maine Dems printing bumper stickers that say “Vote for the rapist - it’s important.”

[volare737]

Yep, as the placard says, “They don’t know Maine”……lol

[Zathras]

Probably the only time I have ever agreed with King.

[Red Badger]

He’s in Florida now..................

[volare737]

Even Hiawatha Warren who was a strong supporter of Platner—saying “He is my kind of man”— has turned on him, after spending lots of political Wampum on him.

[11th_VA]

I’m with Stephen.

Hahahah - we need t-shirts !

[volare737]

Yep, I kind of like a t-shirt now that says,

“I’M STILL WITH PLATNER, THEY DONT KNOW MAINE”…..lol

[oldtech]

Privately wishing he would stay out of politics.

[jmaroneps37]

I’m with you Herr King. I would not be surprised if he stays in. He is a greedy scumbag that does not strike me a being willing to “take one for the team.”

[John Milner]

Is that some law?

Even if it is, they will finesse the interpretation for the Dems if necessary.

Laws are for the little people, and Republicans.

[ClarityGuy]

Renaming a rest stop after JBJ was a new low for the democrats.

[No name given]

‘ Laws are for the little people, and Republicans.’

In a perfect world, Hillary, Xiden and Obeyme would all be in federal prison along with the Nazi war criminal George Soros.

[No name given]

Thus exposing them for the two faced hypocrites they are.

[No name given]

I’m with you on this one.