WASHINGTON \u2014 Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has begun dropping campaign events from his schedule as a key deadline for replacing him on the ballot approaches.<\/p>\n
The Platner campaign indefinitely postponed scheduled town halls in Augusta on Sunday and Gorham on Monday, as well as an event in Sanford that had its listing taken down.<\/p>\n
Gorham Democrats claimed Monday morning that the Senate candidate was \u201cnot feeling well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Embattled Dem Graham Platner has started nixing campaign events from his schedule.<\/p>\n
The Platner campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Sources told The Post that the reduced schedule comes as the Democrat and his team are anticipating another negative story about the candidate dropping soon.<\/p>\n
Last month, The New York Times published a story about six ex-girlfriends of Platner, three of whom alleged he \u201chated women\u201d \u2014 with one alleging\u00a0he twisted her arm before locking her in her room during an argument, among other acts of physical abuse or intimidation.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThroughout this campaign, I\u2019ve been open about what was a very dark period of my life where I struggled with undiagnosed PTSD, too often self medicated with alcohol, and was a far from perfect boyfriend,\u201d he said in a statement responding to the piece.<\/p>\n \u201cI take responsibility for all of that, and wish I had been better. Any characterization beyond that is false, and I believe, politically motivated. I\u2019m not proud of who I was then, but I am proud of the work I\u2019ve done since, and the movement we are building in Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n Platner visited DC last month before the The Pine Tree State\u2019s primary election and stressed in a private meeting with Democratic senators that no\u00a0credible allegations of sexual assault<\/a>\u00a0would be coming to light.<\/p>\n Graham Platner during a primary election night event in Blue Hill, Maine on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n The Senate hopeful has also been dogged by allegations of\u00a0sexting six other women while married<\/a>, which he and his campaign acknowledged.\u00a0<\/p>\n Until recently, Platner also maintained an active account on the private messaging app Kik, which is known as a hotbed for hookups, and displayed a picture on the profile of himself shirtless in a white towel.<\/p>\n That\u2019s on top of stories last year about Platner\u00a0making offensive comments on Reddit\u00a0<\/a>and getting a\u00a0tattoo of a notorious Nazi SS symbol<\/a>\u00a0that he later replaced.<\/p>\n Two of his ex-girlfriends \u2014 one of whom worked for a Republican think tank and the other of whom identifies as a \u201cleftist\u201d \u2014 have said Platner lied about not knowing the origins of the skull-and-bones \u201cTotenkopf\u201d when first asked about the symbol on his chest last year.<\/p>\n Platner during a campaign event with abortion rights advocates in Portland, Maine, on, June 22, 2026. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n Platner also had the tattoo replaced with the image of a Celtic knot in the shape of a dog.<\/p>\n A recent Times\/Portland Press Herald\/Siena College survey showed Platner leading Collins 49% to 47%, though 3% said they didn\u2019t know whom they would support or declined to answer.<\/p>\n But just 44% said Platner had \u201cgood character,\u201d whereas 66% of those surveyed shared that sentiment about Collins. Similarly, 45% said the Democrat \u201chas the right kind of moral values,\u201d compared with 61% who said that about Collins.<\/p>\n Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Democratic leaders have still backed him in the challenge against Collins \u2014 one of three key races where the GOP is working to maintain its Senate majority.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cI am going to do everything I can to make sure that Graham Platner is the next senator from the state of Maine,\u201d Sanders said in an interview with CBS News\u2019 Robert Costa in June. \u201cThere are people in the United States Senate who are not saints, I can tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n The Vermont independent endorsed the 41-year-old Senate candidate due to his support of policies in favor of single-payer health care and hiking taxes for billionaires<\/p>\n