{"id":820,"date":"2026-07-12T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2026-07-12T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:23:35","slug":"maine-after-platner-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Maine After Platner | The Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2280206426-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Maine After Platner | The Nation\" title=\"Maine After Platner | The Nation\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"post-603735\" data-post=\"603735\">\n<section class=\"wp-block-group blocks-wrapper type-standard-article is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad-block ad siderail-ad float-r-w-3 break-r-4\">\n<p>                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"ad-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245441031.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\n<p>Graham Platner, Democratic US Senate candidate for Maine, during a primary election night event at the Blue Hill YMCA in Maine on June 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credits\">(Graeme Sloan \/ Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Graham Platner is withdrawing as the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine after a credible rape allegation was made against him (Platner denies the allegation). I spoke to Maine writer Eoin Higgins about Platner\u2019s rise and fall, the progressive politics that animated his campaign, and the upcoming scramble by the Democratic Party of Maine to find a new candidate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to <\/em>The Nation <em>to support all of our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenation.com\/podcastsubscribe\">thenation.com\/subscribe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"cta-block_ec9004eb0eb5ea3a8443a7083045acca\" class=\"cta\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"cta__container\">\n<div class=\"cta__inline\">\n<p><h2 class=\"cta__title\">Subscribe to The Nation to Support all of our podcasts<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"blocks-wrapper is-standard-article is-layout-flow\">\n<div id=\"article-end-\" class=\"article-end \">\n<div class=\"article-end__authors\">\n<div class=\"article-end__author\">\n<h5 class=\"article-end__author-name\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/jeet-heer\/\">Jeet Heer<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/h5>\n<p>                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeerJeet\" class=\"article-end__author-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n                            <default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"17\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 17 14\" fill=\"none\"><br \/>\n\t<default:path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M15.2054 3.54558C15.2122 3.6951 15.215 3.84463 15.215 3.99527C15.215 8.58792 11.7194 13.8834 5.32683 13.8834C3.36455 13.8834 1.53779 13.3083 0 12.3221C0.271606 12.354 0.548252 12.3702 0.828257 12.3702C2.45677 12.3702 3.95536 11.8147 5.14483 10.8829C3.62384 10.8543 2.34085 9.84963 1.89844 8.4692C2.11068 8.51008 2.32797 8.53136 2.55253 8.53136C2.87006 8.53136 3.17695 8.48936 3.46815 8.40984C1.87772 8.09008 0.680414 6.68501 0.680414 5.00273C0.680414 4.98705 0.680414 4.97305 0.680414 4.95793C1.14858 5.21833 1.68452 5.37514 2.25461 5.39362C1.32219 4.76921 0.708415 3.7063 0.708415 2.5006C0.708415 1.8633 0.879778 1.26633 1.17882 0.753361C2.89302 2.85621 5.45395 4.23887 8.34249 4.38392C8.28313 4.12967 8.25233 3.86423 8.25233 3.59206C8.25233 1.6729 9.80861 0.117188 11.7278 0.117188C12.7274 0.117188 13.6301 0.539436 14.2641 1.21425C15.0559 1.05913 15.8002 0.769041 16.4716 0.370873C16.2118 1.18289 15.6602 1.86386 14.9428 2.29395C15.6462 2.20939 16.3159 2.02235 16.9392 1.74626C16.4739 2.44292 15.8842 3.05557 15.2054 3.54558Z\" fill=\"#666666\"\/><br \/>\n<\/default:svg><br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-end__author-bio\">\n<p>Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for <em>The Nation<\/em> and host of the weekly <em>Nation<\/em> podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/content\/time-of-monsters\/\"><em>The Time of Monsters<\/em><\/a>. He also pens the monthly column \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/content\/morbid-symptoms\/\">Morbid Symptoms<\/a>.\u201d The author of <a href=\"https:\/\/chbooks.com\/Books\/I\/In-Love-with-Art\"><em>In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly\u2019s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2013) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/sweet-lechery-reviews-essays-profiles\/9780889843783\"><em>Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, <em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>, <em>The American Prospect<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The New Republic<\/em>,\u00a0and <em>The Boston Globe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script type=\"6c31e062eaf6d19d990d0ca3-text\/javascript\">\n\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\t\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\t\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\tfbq('init', '233793277040432');\n\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ad Policy Graham Platner, Democratic US Senate candidate for Maine, during a primary election night event at the Blue Hill YMCA in Maine on June 9, 2026. 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