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{"id":25549,"date":"2026-07-09T01:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-platner-paperwork-yet\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:17:14","slug":"no-platner-paperwork-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-platner-paperwork-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"No Platner paperwork yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Graham Platner has not yet officially submitted the paperwork to withdraw from the Senate race, according to a spokesperson for Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows&#8217; office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA public declaration is not an official withdrawal, and a candidate must formally withdraw to the Elections office in writing, including signature,&#8221; the spokesperson said in a statement shortly after 8:40 p.m. on Wednesday. &#8220;To date, no official withdrawal notice has been received from Mr. Platner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 11-minute video announcing he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/08\/graham-platner-drops-out-maine-senate-00991087\" target=\"_blank\">suspending his campaign<\/a>, posted at 8:10 p.m., Platner said, &#8220;I want to make clear, though, I intend to file my paperwork to withdraw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bellows is one of several Democrats being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/08\/graham-platner-polls-replacements-senate-00990664\" target=\"_blank\">floated as a possible replacement<\/a> for Platner. In a statement Tuesday, Bellows said she would &#8220;seriously consider&#8221; entering the race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Platner has not yet officially submitted the paperwork to withdraw from the Senate race, according to a spokesperson for Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows&#8217; office. \u201cA public declaration is not an official withdrawal, and a candidate must formally withdraw to the Elections office in writing, including signature,&#8221; the spokesperson said in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25549","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=25549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}