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What could Democrats have done differently about Graham Platner?

Supporters hold signs as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner holds at a town hall the Elks Lodge 188 on June 7, 2026, in Portland, Maine. | Laura Brett/Getty Images When Graham Platner met with Democratic senators last month to try to assuage fears that his troubled personal history would doom his Senate campaign, they pressed him on whether any additional allegations — such as those of sexual assault — were coming. Platner said there would be nothing credible. But on Monday, Politico published a lengthy, detailed report in which a woman who dated Platner accused him of com...