{"id":394083,"date":"2026-07-10T23:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394083\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:52:08","slug":"sexual-assault-allegations-reshape-political-races-from-maine-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394083\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Assault Allegations Reshape Political Races from Maine to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sexual assault allegations have upended high-profile political campaigns across the country. This week, Democrat Graham Platner, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, suspended his campaign following an accusation of rape. It comes months after former East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell\u2019s California gubernatorial bid collapsed under similar allegations. Now, a sexual assault allegation has emerged against <a href=\"https:\/\/next.kqed.org\/news\/12090545\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Yekutiel<\/a>, owner of Manny\u2019s Caf\u00e9 and candidate for San Francisco\u2019s District 8 supervisor. KQED\u2019s Lesley McClurg and Sydney Johnson discuss the fallout.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Lesley talks with Hannah Wiley, senior politics reporter at the San Francisco Standard. She recently profiled the <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/07\/07\/cheyenne-hunt-platner-swalwell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">29-year-old Californian<\/a> who\u2019s played a role in toppling the campaigns of Swalwell and Platner. Cheyenne Hunt is using social media to amplify allegations against men and is connecting accusers with lawyers and reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Check out \u2060\u2060\u2060<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060Political Breakdown\u2019s weekly newsletter\u2060<\/a>\u2060\u2060\u2060, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sexual assault allegations have upended high-profile political campaigns across the country. This week, Democrat Graham Platner, a candidate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-394083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}