{"id":3490825,"date":"2026-07-08T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/republicans-happily-revel-in-midterm-chaos-in-maine\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:09:14","slug":"republicans-happily-revel-in-midterm-chaos-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/republicans-happily-revel-in-midterm-chaos-in-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Happily Revel in Midterm Chaos in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maine is the focus<\/span> this week. Political insiders within Trumpworld inform Inner Loop<\/em> that they wish troubled senate hopeful Graham Platner<\/a> will remain in the contest for as long as he can\u2014the turmoil in the state\u2019s elections may only benefit Republicans, they argue.<\/p>\n

Platner, a former US Marine, navigated through a series of scandals to secure a decisive victory in the Democratic primary last month. He is expected to challenge incumbent Republican Susan Collins in the general election this November, which is anticipated to be one of the nation\u2019s most scrutinized races, yet a number of Democratic leaders are now urging him to withdraw.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a woman from Maine accused Platner of sexual assault and reported to Politico<\/a> that he had once coerced her into having sex against her will. (Platner\u2019s campaign did not return a request for a statement, although it previously refuted the allegation in a prior statement to Politico.)<\/p>\n

Prior to this, Platner faced allegations of abusing women<\/a>, had hidden a Nazi tattoo<\/a>, and was associated with several inappropriate comments online<\/a>. In the last day, Democrats ranging from Senator Bernie Sanders<\/a> to Senator Chuck Schumer<\/a> have demanded he exit the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Maine is the focus<\/span> this week. Political insiders within Trumpworld inform Inner Loop<\/em> that they wish troubled senate hopeful Graham Platner<\/a> will remain in the contest for as long as he can\u2014the turmoil in the state\u2019s elections may only benefit Republicans, they argue.<\/p>\n

Platner, a former US Marine, navigated through a series of scandals to secure a decisive victory in the Democratic primary last month. He is expected to challenge incumbent Republican Susan Collins in the general election this November, which is anticipated to be one of the nation\u2019s most scrutinized races, yet a number of Democratic leaders are now urging him to withdraw.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a woman from Maine accused Platner of sexual assault and reported to Politico<\/a> that he had once coerced her into having sex against her will. (Platner\u2019s campaign did not return a request for a statement, although it previously refuted the allegation in a prior statement to Politico.)<\/p>\n

Prior to this, Platner faced allegations of abusing women<\/a>, had hidden a Nazi tattoo<\/a>, and was associated with several inappropriate comments online<\/a>. In the last day, Democrats ranging from Senator Bernie Sanders<\/a> to Senator Chuck Schumer<\/a> have demanded he exit the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3490826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[456,458,166,234,307,16,457],"class_list":["post-3490825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-inner-loop","tag-politics","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3490826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}