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{"id":25560,"date":"2026-07-09T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/top-democratic-groups-recommit-to-maine-senate-race-after-platner-drops-out\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:02:14","slug":"top-democratic-groups-recommit-to-maine-senate-race-after-platner-drops-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/top-democratic-groups-recommit-to-maine-senate-race-after-platner-drops-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Democratic groups recommit to Maine Senate race after Platner drops out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Democrats\u2019 campaign arm is jumping back into Maine and launching a fund to raise money for the party\u2019s new Senate nominee, now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/08\/graham-platner-drops-out-maine-senate-00991087\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Platner has ended his campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DSCC will work tirelessly to ensure the new Democratic nominee has the infrastructure and resources to immediately turn their focus to the general election, and in November we will defeat Susan Collins and win a Senate majority,\u201d said Devan Barber, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows DSCC and other groups \u2014 including the Democratic National Committee and Senate Majority PAC, a top Democrat-aligned group \u2014 abandoning Platner in the wake of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737\" target=\"_blank\">POLITICO report<\/a> that a woman said he forced her to have sex with him. That would have shifted critical resources away from a race the party has said is a must-win for taking back Senate control.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the DSCC has launched a nominee fund to raise money for whoever will replace Platner on the ballot, according to one person with knowledge of its plans, granted anonymity to share private details. After the party nominating convention, the fund will be transferred directly to the nominee\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Majority PAC also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/08\/congress\/senate-majority-pac-back-in-00991344\" target=\"_blank\">said Wednesday that it is<\/a> reentering the race and is \u201ccommitted\u201d to defeating GOP Sen. Susan Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer \u2014 who, alongside DSCC Chair Kirsten Gillibrand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dscc.org\/article\/dscc-statement-on-maine-senate-race-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced earlier this week<\/a> that the group wouldn\u2019t spend in Maine if Platner was on the ballot \u2014 did not mention Platner in a tweet Wednesday about the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats are going to defeat Susan Collins, win Maine, and take back the Senate,\u201d Schumer posted on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats\u2019 campaign arm is jumping back into Maine and launching a fund to raise money for the party\u2019s new Senate nominee, now that Graham Platner has ended his campaign. \u201cThe DSCC will work tirelessly to ensure the new Democratic nominee has the infrastructure and resources to immediately turn their focus to the general election, [&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-25560","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\/25560","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=25560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}