A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.

The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.

Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.

“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” she said. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”

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      And everyone who brought up concerns before the primaries were over got shouted down to stop purity testing.

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          And they don’t care.

          I’ve increasingly come to realize it is the mix of the cosplayers who just wanted to keep a nazi on the card and… the idiots are hellbent on getting revenge for 2024. They are mad that the DNC didn’t find a way to fit a full national primary in when Biden fucked us over by stepping down like 5 months before the general election so OBVIOUSLY “their” candidate should stick around because “there isn’t time to find a new candidate”… almost a year prior to the primary.