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Embattled U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner was hit with a second explosive allegation of sexual impropriety only about 24 hours after he was accused of rape — all while a major campaign decision deadline looms.
In a new report published by The Washington Post, the candidate from Maine was accused of removing condoms during sex with his ex-girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield after she explicitly directed him to wear them.
“He would pull condoms off,” she told The Washington Post. “He would do it in a sneaky way. He wouldn’t tell me.”
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Fifield, 41, previously accused Platner of physical misconduct during their relationship, saying that he sometimes grabbed her hard enough to leave marks on her body, and that one time he twisted her arm around her back, pushed her into a bedroom and held the door shut until she “calmed down.”
Those concerns were largely dismissed by Platner’s supporters, who characterized Fifield, who used to work at The Heritage Foundation, of being a conservative operative.
“I confronted him both during and after [sex] because he knew that I was not on birth control and how dangerous that was,” she told The Post, who said that Fifield made the allegations in a previous interview with the outlet, but strictly off the record.
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“He would act like cute about it, like ‘Oh sneaky me,'” she said, according to the report.
In a statement to The Washington Post, the Platner campaign reportedly said that Fifield’s latest allegations were “categorically false and politically motivated.”
Platner is running to oust Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins.
Monday, the oyster farmer, whose campaign has been dogged by scandal since last year, was accused of rape by another woman.
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Jenny Racicot, 41, told POLITICO that Platner drunkenly entered her home while they were on-again, off-again romantic partners in 2021, and raped her. She claimed that he ejaculated inside her after she told him to stop multiple times.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” Racicot told the outlet, which she said took place while Platner was “almost blackout drunk” in Washington, D.C. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
Platner categorically denied those allegations, too, in a video released in the immediate aftermath of the publication of the POLITICO story.
He said his campaign was taking time to assess possible next steps, as a major deadline in the race looms.
Platner must withdraw from the race by 5:00 p.m. on next Monday, July 13, if another Democratic candidate, who would be chosen by the party, is to replace him before the November general election.
Monday evening into Tuesday, a litany of previous supporters dropped their endorsements of Platner and called for him to drop out of the race, including progressive Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., two of his most ardent backers.
“Now more than ever we need leaders in Washington who reflect our values. There can be no tolerance for sexual assault,” Warren said in a statement Monday night.
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“Working families are counting on Democrats to win the Senate election in Maine to unrig our economy and hold Donald Trump accountable. With so much at stake, the best path forward is for Graham Platner to step aside as the Democratic nominee and address these serious allegations outside this Senate race.”
“I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine,” Sanders said in a statement midday Tuesday. “In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Platner’s campaign for comment.
Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
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