{"id":631749,"date":"2026-07-07T22:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=631749"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:39:33","slug":"rape-allegation-shatters-graham-platners-far-left-base-puts-his-campaign-on-death-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=631749","title":{"rendered":"Rape allegation shatters Graham Platner&#8217;s far-left base, puts his campaign on death watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same left-wing coalition that helped turn him into a rock star in Maine&#8217;s U.S. Senate race abandoned him Tuesday in the wake of a rape allegation that has thrown into turmoil the Democratic Party&#8217;s plan to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/06\/09\/Election_2_26_Maine_Senate_43571_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"Rape allegation shatters Graham Platner&apos;s far-left base, puts his campaign on death watch\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same left-wing coalition that helped turn him into a rock star in Maine&#8217;s U.S. Senate race abandoned him Tuesday in the wake of a rape allegation that has thrown into turmoil the Democratic Party&#8217;s plan to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/631750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}