His long history of internet commentary also emerged.
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Platner had suggested rural voters were bigoted and stupid, justified urinating on Taliban fighters’ bodies, and made statements like Black restaurant patrons do not tip.
He attributed these to excessive drinking and PTSD.
He pitched himself as a changed man, but more controversies kept surfacing.
An ex-girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield, alleged to the New York Times that Platner once physically restrained her and locked her in a bedroom, leaving physical marks.
She later told the Washington Post he habitually removed condoms without consent, an act considered sexual assault in several states.
Platner’s campaign called those claims “categorically false” and “politically motivated.”
Political Reactions and Voter Sentiment
Seemingly every prominent Democrat quickly called on Platner to drop out.
But Donald Trump, accused of sexual misconduct by over two dozen women, said: “It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman.
A lot of people say big falsehoods.”
Some Democratic operatives had championed Platner as a macho figure to counter the party’s perceived feminization.
Social media user Ken Klippenstein wrote approvingly that Platner’s ascendance meant “the era of smoothgroin politicians is coming to an end.”
Thinktank denizen Matt Stoller called his campaign “a rejection of Dem HR lady politics.”
However, polls released just before Racicot’s allegation showed Platner trailing incumbent Republican Susan Collins among voters without a college degree.
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Many said he lacked “good character” and “the right kind of moral values.”
