I hope that he's found innocent of the allegations, because the alternative is some women were raped. It has sounded like the provided evidence is not good for him, so I'm not holding my breath though.

It's up to the Maine Democratic Party now.

For what it's worth, they're not going to give Janet Mills the nomination. She's polling next to last in the half-dozen or so realistic replacements. My own money is on Troy Jackson, who has already created a committee to explore the possibility and who already has an established reputation in Maine politics.

This Politico article gives a good breakdown of who they will be looking at to replace Platner:

The Tuesday poll of 785 Maine voters showed Platner trailing Collins 47 percent to 42 percent. Eleven percent said they were undecided. It also tested Jackson, Bellows, former Senate candidate Jordan Wood, former public health official Nirav Shah and Democratic Gov. Janet Mills — who ended her Senate bid before the primary — in head-to-head match-ups with Collins.

Of the Democrats tested, Jackson performed the best, leading Collins 49 percent to 44 percent, with 7 percent of voters undecided. Bellows and Shah both essentially tied Collins at 47 percent and 45 percent, respectively. Mills, who has not weighed in publicly on the POLITICO report, trailed Collins 48 percent to 37 percent, while Wood trailed 47 percent to 38 percent.

The latest news is that the Maine Democrats are planning 600-person convention to replace Graham Platner: not a special election, but not a small committee either. This article is from just before the news came that he did actually drop out:

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/08/maine-democrats-plan-600-person-convention-to-replace-platner-once-he-drops-out/

EDITED to add Politico summary

I think its going to be on the Platner campaign, not the Maine DNC to decide who the next person is going to be. They have the internal infrastructure to win an election. Maine DNC does not.

all your sins will be forgiven and you can abuse israelis all you like if you pass the purity test

Fuck Camden! The downtown is a snarled mess of pedestrians and state highway traffic.

Lovely place if you don't have to pass through, though.

Veteran? Hard pass.

Agreed.

We already did find out, he 100% did it

This is slightly different, but Im getting Bernie in 2016 vibes today

This is the state party...

The DNC is involved in absolutely none of this.

This state party is, unfortunately, run by someone less than a decade out of college who somehow just keeps failing upwards

I have to assume she's some kind of nepo baby, because it's wild a state party chair doesn't have a wikipedia and it takes some oligarch level juice to keep one from being made.

This DNC isn't going to exert pressure on start parties, which is bad in this case.

Because regardless of how many committees and meetings happen, the Maine Dem chair names whoever they want now

It's gonna be a shitty pro-Israel neoliberal getting a six year senatorship.

Oh look at that, you are capable of commenting on this without blaming the literal rape victim. How about that.