{"id":5200,"date":"2026-07-08T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/07\/08\/maine-democratic-party-accuses-platners-team-of-attempting-to-put-their-thumb-on-the-scale-to-select-new-nominee-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:01:07","slug":"maine-democratic-party-accuses-platners-team-of-attempting-to-put-their-thumb-on-the-scale-to-select-new-nominee-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"Maine Democratic Party accuses Platner\u2019s team of attempting to \u2018put their thumb on the scale\u2019 to select new nominee \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">As we noted earlier, <strong>the Maine Democratic Party have said that Graham Platner\u2019s team has repeatedly tried to \u201cput their thumb on the scale,\u201d when it comes to the process of selecting a new nominee<\/strong>, should the beleaguered veteran end his bid for Senate as expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">State senator <strong>Joe Baldacci<\/strong>, who lost the Democratic primary for Maine\u2019s second congressional district, blasted Platner for attempting to influence the selection of his replacement. \u201cGuess what after you have put the Democratic Party in a shambles and undermined all Democratic candidates running for office in Maine, then you should have no say in who will be your successor,\u201d Baldacci <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeBaldacci\/status\/2074290594319417550?s=20\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">wrote<\/a> this week, after a woman accused Platner of sexual assault. Shortly after his campaign began to collapse and he lost key endorsements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Baldacci added that any alternative candidate with a close tie to Platner would be carrying \u201ca lead weight\u201d into the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we noted earlier, the Maine Democratic Party have said that Graham Platner\u2019s team has repeatedly tried to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}