ME-SEN: Graham Platner cancels fundraisers, pulls down ads as he mulls campaign future

Graham Platner’s campaign has canceled upcoming fundraisers and paused some online ads as he faces mounting calls to exit the Maine Senate race.

Platner’s campaign has now iced all in-person fundraising, canceling at least a half-dozen planned events that had been penciled in over coming days, per a person with direct knowledge of the move, granted anonymity to discuss internal campaign deliberations. It comes on the heels of widespread calls from Democrats — including nearly all of his high-profile former supporters and a majority of Senate Democrats — for him to drop out and let the party select a replacement to face GOP Sen. Susan Collins. The campaign has also put holds on its ads on Facebook and Instagram, according to the platform’s tracker.

The moves are the most concrete signs yet that Platner may be preparing to exit the race in the wake of an exclusive POLITICO report that a woman who Platner dated said he forced her to have sex with him.

Representatives for Platner’s campaign did not immediately return requests for comment.


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