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{"id":25432,"date":"2026-07-06T21:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/khanna-and-gallego-withdraw-platner-endorsements\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:47:15","slug":"khanna-and-gallego-withdraw-platner-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/khanna-and-gallego-withdraw-platner-endorsements\/","title":{"rendered":"Khanna and Gallego withdraw Platner endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Ruben Gallego rescinded their support of Graham Platner on Monday, with Khanna additionally calling for the Democratic nominee to drop out of the Maine Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a significant reversal from two formerly staunch Democratic defenders of Platner, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/graham-platner-time-to-reflect-allegations-00987897\" target=\"_blank\">POLITICO report<\/a> that a woman who dated Platner said he forced her to have sex with him five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Platner has denied the allegations, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/graham-platner-time-to-reflect-allegations-00987897\" target=\"_blank\">he also posted on social media<\/a> that he was \u201ctaking the time to reflect on the best path forward\u201d for his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoKhanna\/status\/2074242263710917062?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Khanna (D-Calif.) said on X<\/a>. \u201cThese allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his own social media post, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RubenGallego\/status\/2074242801953386923?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Gallego (D-Ariz.) called the allegations<\/a> \u201ctroubling and deeply serious\u201d while announcing he would no longer back the progressive oysterman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Ruben Gallego rescinded their support of Graham Platner on Monday, with Khanna additionally calling for the Democratic nominee to drop out of the Maine Senate race. It\u2019s a significant reversal from two formerly staunch Democratic defenders of Platner, following a Blue Light News report that a woman who dated Platner said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}