亚利桑那州参议员鲁本·加列戈在撤回对格雷厄姆·普拉特纳的支持数月前，也曾因性行为不端指控撤销对埃里克·斯沃韦尔的背书
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作者：亚历克·舍梅尔
费特曼呼吁伯尼·桑德斯为支持普拉特纳道歉
宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员约翰·费特曼在《英格拉汉姆视角》节目中谈论缅因州参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳面临的性侵指控。
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曾暗示将参加2028年总统竞选的亚利桑那州民主党参议员鲁本·加列戈，在撤销对第二名被指控存在女性不当行为的民主党候选人的支持后，正面临新的判断力质疑。
周一，一桩强奸指控曝光后，加列戈撤销了对缅因州参议院提名候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳的背书。此举距加列戈因另一宗性侵和行为不端指控，被迫撤回对埃里克·斯沃韦尔灾难性的加州州长竞选支持仅数月。
普拉特纳和斯沃韦尔均否认对他们的指控。加列戈在X平台的社交媒体帖子中宣布将撤回对普拉特纳的支持，称对他的指控“令人不安且极其严重”。
与此同时，曾公开指控普拉特纳存在虐待行为的普拉特纳前女友林赛·菲菲尔德，在这位亚利桑那州参议员周一撤销对普拉特纳的背书后，公开指责加列戈，称加列戈在最终放弃这位身陷困境的缅因州民主党人之前，早就有足够的预警信号。
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亚利桑那州民主党参议员鲁本·加列戈（盖蒂图片社）
“我的指控对你来说还不够令人不安或严重，对吧？”菲菲尔德在回应加列戈在X平台的一篇社交媒体帖子时质疑道，她指的是几周前发表在《纽约时报》上的、她与普拉特纳恋情的描述。
菲菲尔德的指控被纳入6月4日《纽约时报》一篇审视普拉特纳过往恋情的报道中，她在报道中称，普拉特纳多次用力抓她以致留下痕迹，拽着她的手腕把她从出租车里拉出来，还有一次在他们约会的几年前，将她的手臂扭到背后并将她困在房间里。菲菲尔德告诉《泰晤士报》，普拉特纳从未打过她或拳打她，但称所谓的事件让她感到震惊和害怕。普拉特纳否认存在暴力行为，称指控不实。
尽管如此，在《泰晤士报》报道发布前后，普拉特纳仍获得了民主党 influential 人士的支持。“拯救美国播客”联合主持人乔恩·洛维特在6月4日的报道发布后承认，《泰晤士报》报道了普拉特纳“对过往恋爱伴侣进行恐吓甚至身体攻击”的指控，但辩称民主党人必须权衡，他们是更想要“格雷厄姆·普拉特纳进入参议院的民主党多数席位”，还是拥有缅因州现任共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯的共和党多数席位。
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联合主持人乔恩·法夫罗此前曾称赞普拉特纳是民主党人“击败柯林斯的最佳且唯一机会”，并称他是“一个善良、正派的人，经历过挣扎并成长，始终努力做得更好”。
缅因州民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳，2026年6月9日周二在缅因州布鲁克林希尔YMCA的初选之夜活动上（格雷姆·斯隆/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）。进步派民主党人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在一场激烈的竞选活动中赢得缅因州民主党参议院初选，这场竞选与其说是关于选民最关心的问题，不如说是关于他过往行为不端的指控。
“加列戈参议员做得正确，在得知这些人违背了他引以为傲的奋斗价值观后，与他们划清了界限，”加列戈的发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
但宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员约翰·费特曼表示，像佛蒙特州独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯这样的人，需要为支持普拉特纳道歉。他告诉福克斯新闻的劳拉·英格拉汉姆，他“早在一开始就拒绝忽视这些指控”。
“他的所作所为是，他 effectively 破门进入她的家——未经她同意进入她的家，然后上楼袭击了她。她还描述说，由于这些情况，可能会导致怀孕的危险局面，他所做的一切，”费特曼在谈及最新指控时说道。
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“他在政治上已经是行尸走肉了，”费特曼继续说道。“就连那些吹捧这个混蛋的‘播客兄弟’们，他们在《纽约时报》的文章中对这些事情不屑一顾，或许他们应该向那些他们显然不相信或不屑一顾的女性道歉。”
“我认识一些民主党人，他们接连背书并全力支持斯沃韦尔，也加入了普拉特纳的阵营。所以，或许别再和绝对的混蛋同流合污了——像普拉特纳这样的人，”费特曼补充道。
福克斯新闻数字频道对公开背书声明和新闻报道的审查发现，加列戈是唯一一位明确被确认同时背书斯沃韦尔和普拉特纳的在任国会议员。服务于不同州和地方的SEIU和AFL-CIO工会网络分支机构参与了这两场竞选，但并非同一背书实体。
缅因州民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳（左）和前民主党众议员埃里克·斯沃韦尔（右）（盖蒂图片社）
“针对普拉特纳的指控令人发指，但对于任何真正读过《泰晤士报》那篇‘捕后即杀’报道的人来说，这并不意外。受害者在报道中强烈暗示了这些指控，”参议院领袖米奇·麦康奈尔的前首席法律顾问迈克·弗拉戈索在本周针对普拉特纳的最新一轮指控时说道。
最新指控来自缅因州民主党人珍妮·拉西科特，她称自己在2019年至2021年间断断续续与普拉特纳约会，并曾在6月的报道中接受过《泰晤士报》采访。拉西科特在周一的《政客》报道中指控，普拉特纳在2021年末她明确拒绝他来访后，未经邀请进入她的家，当时他喝醉了，无视她反复提出的反对意见，并强迫她发生性关系。《政客》报道称，其审查了与拉西科特治疗师的短信和电子邮件，并采访了她所谓的在所谓袭击后向其倾诉的人。普拉特纳再次否认该指控为不实。
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在《政客》报道发布后，加列戈与其他几位知名民主党人一同撤销了对普拉特纳的支持，或呼吁他退出竞选。而民主党幕僚们正面临缅因州选举法规定的紧迫时间窗口，若普拉特纳退出，需更换候选人。
“加列戈的判断力令人不安，”亚利桑那州共和党参议员沃伦·彼得森说道。“又一个加列戈的背书彻底失败了。”
“有一种奇怪的模式：加列戈声称完全不知道他的朋友埃里克·斯沃韦尔被指控虐待女性，现在对格雷厄姆·普拉特纳也是如此，”福克斯新闻媒体撰稿人、乔治华盛顿大学法学教授乔纳森·特利说道。
“对于舒尔茨的PAC、参议院候选人加列戈、‘播客兄弟’等人来说，现在唯一真正的区别是民调结果，”弗拉戈索在谈及对普拉特纳的态度转变时说道。
亚利桑那州民主党参议员鲁本·加列戈2026年6月1日在华盛顿特区国会山准备投票时与记者交谈（奇普·索莫德维利亚/盖蒂图片社）
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与此同时，保守派评论员瑞安·吉尔达斯基将矛头对准加列戈的个人经历，在X平台上写道：“鲁本·加列戈抛弃格雷厄姆·普拉特纳，就像他抛弃怀孕的妻子一样。”
这番嘲讽之际，加列戈还因2016年与时任妻子凯特·加列戈的离婚面临单独审查，凯特当时正怀有身孕。
unsealed 的离婚记录显示，加列戈于2016年12月15日提出离婚，他自己提出的密封案件动议中提到，凯特·加列戈“尚未被送达传票”，但“很可能随时分娩”。
除了离婚带来的审查，加列戈还因竞选资金用于家庭旅行、托儿和其他个人开支遭到投诉。一周前，《政客》报道称，加列戈使用竞选资金前往迈阿密、圣巴泰勒米、迪士尼乐园、迪士尼世界和芝加哥的家庭旅行。他还使用资金参加了2023年在亚利桑那州举办的超级碗，但这位参议员坚称，这些门票是合法的竞选筹款开支。
福克斯新闻数字频道的彼得·达布罗斯卡和凯特琳·卡拉勒为本报告做出了贡献。
亚历克·舍梅尔是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者，原籍北卡罗来纳州夏洛特，现居住在华盛顿特区-巴尔的摩大都会区。
Dem with White House ambitions ripped after backing two scandal-plagued candidates: ‘Troubling’
Sen Ruben Gallego drops Platner months after he also rescinded endorsement of Eric Swalwell over sexual misconduct allegations
July 7, 2026 7:51pm EDT / Fox News
By Alec Schemmel
Fetterman calls on Bernie Sanders to apologize for backing Platner
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., discusses sexual assault allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., who has left the door open to a 2028 presidential run, is facing new questions about his judgment after rescinding support for a second Democratic candidate accused of misconduct involving women.
Gallego rescinded his endorsement of Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner on Monday after a rape allegation surfaced. The move comes just months after Gallego was forced to pull his support from Eric Swalwell’s disastrous California gubernatorial bid amid separate allegations of sexual assault and misconduct.
Both Platner and Swalwell have denied the allegations against them. In a social media post on X announcing he would be withdrawing his support for Platner, Gallego called the accusations against him “troubling and deeply serious.”
Meanwhile, Lyndsey Fifield, Platner’s former girlfriend who has publicly accused Platner of abusive behavior, called out Gallego after the Arizona senator withdrew his Platner endorsement Monday, suggesting Gallego had ample warning signs before finally abandoning the embattled Maine Democrat.
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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz.(Getty Images)
“Mine weren’t sufficiently troubling or serious for you, right?” Fifield questioned in response to a social media post on X from Gallego, referring to the accounts of her relationship with Platner provided to the New York Times and published several weeks ago.
Fifield’s allegations were included in a June 4 New York Times report examining Platner’s past relationships, in which she alleged that he repeatedly grabbed her hard enough to leave marks, pulled her from a cab by the wrist and, in one incident, twisted her arm behind her back and held her in a room while they were dating several years ago. Fifield told the Times that Platner never hit or punched her, but said the alleged incidents left her shaken and afraid. Platner denied being violent and called the allegations false.
Still, Platner drew support from influential Democratic figures before and after the Times report. “Pod Save America” co-host Jon Lovett acknowledged after the June 4 story that the Times had reported allegations that Platner was “intimidating and even physically aggressive with past romantic partners,” but argued Democrats had to weigh whether they preferred “a Democratic majority with Graham Platner in the Senate” or a Republican majority with incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
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Fellow co-host Jon Favreau had previously praised Platner as Democrats’ “best and only chance” to beat Collins and as a “good, decent man who’s struggled and grown and is always trying to do better.”
Graham Platner, Democratic US Senate candidate for Maine, during a primary election night event at the Blue Hill YMCA in Blue Hill, Maine, US, on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Progressive Democrat Graham Platner won the party’s Senate primary in Maine after a bruising campaign which became as much about his accusations of past misbehavior as it was voters’ top concerns.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Senator Gallego did the right thing and broke with those individuals when he learned they had betrayed values he proudly fights for,” a Gallego spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
But Senator John Fetterman, D-Pa., said people like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., needed to apologize for backing Platner, telling Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that he “refused” early on to look past the claims.
“What he did, is he effectively broke in her home – he went in her home without her consent, then he came upstairs and assaulted her. She also described that created a dangerous situation for a possible pregnancy because of those circumstances, what he’s done,” Fetterman said of the latest allegations.
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“He was already a dead man walking politically,” Fetterman continued. “Even those Pod Save America people who pushed that dirtbag, and they dismissed those things in the New York Times article, maybe they ought to apologize to the women that clearly they didn’t believe, or they dismissed.”
“I know Democrats that have back-to-back endorsed and gone all in on Swalwell and were on the Platner train as well too. So, maybe stop getting in bed with absolute dirtbags – someone like Platner,” Fetterman added.
A Fox News Digital review of public endorsement announcements and press reports found Gallego was the only sitting member of Congress clearly identified as having endorsed both Swalwell and Platner. Separate state and local affiliates within the SEIU and AFL-CIO labor union networks were involved in each race, but they were not the same endorsing entities.
Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine Graham Platner (left) and former Democratic Party Rep. Eric Swalwell (right)(Getty Images)
“The allegations against Platner are awful but are also unsurprising to anyone who actually read the NYT catch-and-kill story. The victim strongly implied the allegations there,” Former chief counsel to Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, Mike Fragoso, said this week after the latest round of allegations against Platner.
The latest allegation came from Jenny Racicot, a Maine Democrat who said she dated Platner on and off from 2019 to 2021 and had previously spoken to the Times for its June story. Racicot alleged in a Monday Politico report that Platner entered her home uninvited in late 2021 after she told him not to come over, was intoxicated, ignored her repeated objections and forced her to have sex. Politico reported that it reviewed text messages and emails with Racicot’s therapist and spoke with people she said she confided in after the alleged assault. Platner has once again denied the allegation as false.
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Gallego joined several other prominent Democrats after the Politico report in rescinding support for Platner, or calling on him to exit the race, while Democratic operatives face a tight window under Maine election law to replace him if he withdraws.
“Gallego’s judgment is troubling,” Republican Arizona state Senator Warren Peterson said. “Another Gallego endorsement going down in flames.”
“There is a bizarre pattern of Gallego, who claimed complete ignorance of his friend Eric Swalwell’s alleged abusive treatment of women and is now doing the same with Graham Platner,” said Fox News Media contributor and George Washington University law professor, Jonathan Turley.
“For Schumer’s PAC, Senatorial, Gallego, the Pod Bros, et al. the only real difference now is polling,” said Fragoso in terms of the changing sentiment towards Platner.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., talks to reporters as he heads for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Jun. 1, 2026 in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Meanwhile, conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky took aim at Gallego’s personal history, writing on X, “Ruben Gallego is dropping Graham Platner like he’s a pregnant wife.”
The jab comes as Gallego has also faced separate scrutiny in reference to his 2016 divorce from then-wife Kate Gallego, who was pregnant at the time.
Unsealed divorce records reportedly showed that Gallego filed for divorce on Dec. 15, 2016, and that his own motion to seal the case noted Kate Gallego had “not yet been served” but was “likely to give birth any day.”
In addition to scrutiny over his divorce, Gallego has faced complaints over his campaign spending on family travel, childcare and other personal expenses. A week ago, Politico reported that Gallego used campaign money on family trips to Miami, Saint Barthélemy, Disneyland, Disney World and Chicago. He also used funds to attend the 2023 Super Bowl in Arizona, but the senator insisted that the tickets were a legitimate campaign fundraising expense.
Fox News Digital’s Peter D’Abrosca and Katelyn Caralle contributed to this report.
Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.
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