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Stephen King hopes Platner doesn't drop out of Senate race following explosive sexual assault allegation
FOX News ^ | July 07, 2026 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 07/07/2026 5:46:42 AM PDT by 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.

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KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; grahamplatner; josephawulfsohn; maine; notalenthack; portaplatner; stephenking; susancollins

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To: Responsibility2nd

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

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


21 posted on 07/07/2026 6:24:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Freedumb
Graham Platner is the Wilford Brimley of politics........


22 posted on 07/07/2026 6:30:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

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


23 posted on 07/07/2026 6:41:59 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: Red Badger

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


24 posted on 07/07/2026 6:45:14 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Red Badger

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


25 posted on 07/07/2026 6:45:59 AM PDT by MMusson ( )
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To: Red Badger

Big time. Just like Bill Clinton.


26 posted on 07/07/2026 6:46:07 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Red Badger

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


27 posted on 07/07/2026 6:49:01 AM PDT by misterdarcey (Abandon all nuance, ye who enter here.)
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To: misterdarcey

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


28 posted on 07/07/2026 6:53:04 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: dfwgator

Probably the only time I have ever agreed with King.


29 posted on 07/07/2026 7:13:28 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: MMusson

He’s in Florida now..................


30 posted on 07/07/2026 7:19:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

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.


31 posted on 07/07/2026 7:36:38 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: dfwgator
I’m with Stephen.

Hahahah - we need t-shirts !

32 posted on 07/07/2026 7:39:51 AM PDT by 11th_VA ("I got him before he got me.“ - President Trump)
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To: 11th_VA
Yep, I kind of like a t-shirt now that says,

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

33 posted on 07/07/2026 7:47:42 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: Vision

Privately wishing he would stay out of politics.


34 posted on 07/07/2026 7:50:24 AM PDT by oldtech (oltech)
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To: Red Badger

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.”


35 posted on 07/07/2026 8:11:04 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Brian Griffin

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.


36 posted on 07/07/2026 8:48:36 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: ncalburt

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


37 posted on 07/07/2026 9:32:36 AM PDT by ClarityGuy
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To: John Milner

‘ 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.


38 posted on 07/07/2026 9:48:19 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: misterdarcey

Thus exposing them for the two faced hypocrites they are.


39 posted on 07/07/2026 9:49:03 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Skwor

I’m with you on this one.


40 posted on 07/07/2026 11:21:45 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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