Platner drops Maine Senate bid, hailing campaign effort to 'end the genocide'

Platner drops Maine Senate bid, hailing campaign effort to 'end the genocide'. Anti-Israel Democratic candidate with covered-over Nazi tattoo exits amid sexual assault allegations. Maine Democrat Graham Platner announced Wednesday evening that he will drop out of the U.S. Senate race following new allegations that he had committed sexual assault. "We believe that for the movement to continue, it can't be me, and for that reason, we are suspending campaign operations," he said. "All we were asking for was healthcare, was to end the genocide, to use our taxpayer dollars at home to uplift our communities instead of waging war overseas," Platner said in a Facebook address announcing his exit. He denied the allegations against him in the address, adding that a "corporate media system and the political establishment got to act as judge, jury and executioner." Platner, who won his Democratic primary in June on an anti-Israel progressive platform, denied the fresh allegations, telling Politico that "any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue."