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Graham Platner again denied the allegations, blamed the corporate media, entrenched forces and a rigged political system but ultimately said he would suspend his campaign in a late-evening video. It was not the “false allegations,” he said, but the system to blame, NOTUS’ Igor Bobic reports.
“It’s the fact that [the allegations] are being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure on us,” Platner said, running emotional at times. “We live in a political system that is not built for normal people. It is a system that is built structurally to make sure that movements like ours cannot flourish, that if they begin to succeed, they can be crushed.”
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In a call with campaign staff earlier, Platner said the 154,058 Maine voters who supported him “didn’t just reject this kind of politics, they voted for something,” and that the sole goal all along was to defeat incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. And now the race for the Democrat to take her on continues.