前未婚妻指控其存在暴力行为史，这位民主党人正关键中期选举中挑战苏珊·柯林斯
2026年6月5日 美国东部时间晚上11:45 / 福克斯新闻
作者：保罗·施坦豪泽
普拉特纳的核心盟友告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，普拉特纳正在为过去的“有毒”行为“承担责任”
进步派领军人物、众议员罗·卡纳——格雷厄姆·普拉特纳的主要支持者之一——接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访，谈及这位缅因州民主党联邦参议员候选人面临的争议。
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缅因州巴尔港——民主党联邦参议员候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳目前正面临其竞选以来 arguably 最艰难的阶段，他回到家乡，感谢大批支持者对他的支持，并将自己面临的抨击斥为“出于政治动机”。
普拉特纳是一名退伍军人兼牡蛎养殖户，他正试图在今年的中期选举中推翻长期任职的共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯。目前，他正为多起争议辩护，这些争议包括：他在红迪网上发表的煽动性在线评论、他胸前一个被广泛报道且后来被遮盖的类似纳粹标志的纹身，以及上周前未婚妻提出的新指控，称其存在强奸幻想、酗酒和暴力行为史。
“十年前我在网上发表的伤人言论曝光时，我正分享自己通过创伤后应激障碍、康复与成长的黑暗历程走出的个人旅程，当时缅因州支持了我，”普拉特纳在周五的集会上说道，“如今，过去的每一件事、每一段历程都被挖出来、被翻旧账、被当作武器，而你们依然支持我。当有人针对我提出出于政治动机、严重且虚假的虚假指控时，缅因州，你们要支持我。”
柯林斯是一位温和派共和党人，有时会投票反对唐纳德·特朗普总统的政策，她正在倾向民主党人的缅因州竞选第六个六年任期的参议院席位。这场选举是全美为数不多的几场将决定共和党能否保住其微弱参议院多数席位的选举之一。
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2026年6月5日，民主党参议员候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州巴尔港的集会上向支持者发表讲话（保罗·施坦豪泽/福克斯新闻）
普拉特纳得到了进步派领军人物、佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯、马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦以及加利福尼亚州众议员罗·卡纳的支持。他推行经济民粹主义议程，抨击企业影响力，为工人阶级发声。
今年春季早些时候，曾得到参议院民主党长期领袖查克·舒默以及民主党高层支持的两届州长珍妮特·米尔斯在筹款和民调中大幅落后于普拉特纳后退出竞选，普拉特纳因此几乎铁定获得民主党提名。
普拉特纳曾承认自己在阿富汗和伊拉克战争中多次服役后患上创伤后应激障碍。去年秋天他宣布参选参议院后，其有争议的红迪网帖子登上头条，他随即为此道歉。
普拉特纳还表示，他2007年在克罗地亚与驻扎的海军陆战队战友喝酒时纹了这个骷髅头和交叉骨纹身。他说，去年得知该纹身类似纳粹标志后，他用新图案遮盖了它。但新的指控对普拉特纳知晓纹身含义的时间线提出了质疑。
周五的集会由卡纳组织，进步派州长候选人特洛伊·杰克逊和国会候选人马特·邓拉普也在集会上发表了演讲。
在登台发言前接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，卡纳被问及他是否担心当前的指控以及未来可能出现的指控会拖垮普拉特纳的竞选，进而挫败民主党夺回参议院的希望。
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2026年5月24日，参议员伯尼·桑德斯与民主党参议员候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州奥罗诺市缅因大学柯林斯艺术中心举行的“打击寡头政治”巡回演讲中同台（乔·雷德莱/盖蒂图片社）
“我更担心的是明确表明我们反对厌女行为，那些关系充满毒性和波动性，对此没有任何借口，”卡纳说道，“我和格雷厄姆谈过，他说当时他正处于非常黑暗的时期，他作为步兵从伊拉克两次执行任务归来，目睹了暴力和死亡。但这不能成为借口。”
但卡纳补充道，普拉特纳称“回到缅因州后他真正成长了，成为一名牡蛎养殖户，找到了内心的平静，并为那段时期感到羞耻。在我看来，这表明他正在承担责任并改善自己的生活，我们的国家需要这种改过自新。我非常认同他的许多经济政策，比如我们应该对亿万富翁征税，应该关注工人阶级。”
柯林斯周五结束国会山繁忙的一周后返回缅因州，她创下了连续在参议院投出10000票的里程碑。记者就普拉特纳面临的最新指控询问了她。
“最新报道中的指控令人不安，”柯林斯回应道，“我认为格雷厄姆·普拉特纳有很多问题需要回答。”
‘他憎恨女性’：前任曝光的虐待行为与新纳粹纹身指控重创普拉特纳竞选团队
2026年5月5日，缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯在缅因州哈里森参观一个食品银行。该食品银行得益于这位参议员协助争取到的联邦资助得以扩建（保罗·施坦豪泽/福克斯新闻）
与此同时，与这位参议员结盟的一个外部政治团体一直在抨击普拉特纳，投放广告曝光其多起争议。
共和党全国委员会（RNC）在周五集会后的社交媒体帖子中瞄准了普拉特纳。
“格雷厄姆·普拉特纳称自己暴力且不稳定的过去被当作武器对付他。普拉特纳曾说过，他会通过强奸来彰显自己的支配力，‘强奸关乎权力’，”共和党全国委员会研究团队在X平台上写道，并提及了针对这位候选人的新指控。
米尔斯在最近的一次采访中指出，她的名字仍在选票上。一位熟悉其政治圈子的消息人士向福克斯新闻证实，在普拉特纳陷入争议之际，州长接到了许多呼吁其重新参选的电话。但目前米尔斯方面没有开展积极的竞选活动。
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当被问及米尔斯时，卡纳告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“民主的美妙之处在于，你可以全力参选，也可以像珍妮特·米尔斯那样含糊其辞，你可以保留自己在竞选名单上的名字。这就是我热爱美国民主的原因。”
但他预测“普拉特纳将取得胜利。我们需要团结起来，认清目标是击败苏珊·柯林斯。从舒默到桑德斯，所有人都围绕这一目标团结在一起。”
普拉特纳的竞选团队表示，超过600人挤满了这个毗邻阿卡迪亚国家公园的度假小镇的一家剧院，这里距离候选人的家乡沙利文不远，他们参加了集会。团队还宣称，过去24小时内他们筹集了20万美元，称这是米尔斯暂停竞选以来筹款最多的一天。
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福克斯新闻数字频道在集会前采访的缅因州选民对普拉特纳的争议是否会影响他们对这位候选人的看法存在分歧。
来自缅因州沃特伯勒的杰夫在提及普拉特纳时表示：“情况不妙。”“我认为他不应该参与竞选。我是保守派，但他的负面形象太多了，如果民主党人想选出赢家，他们必须另寻他人。他不是合适的人选。问题太多了。”
但来自缅因州阿克顿的埃伦表示，她是注册共和党人，“他是完美的人吗？当然不是。”
“我认为他上任后会做得很好，”她补充道。
保罗·施坦豪泽是驻摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，他全程报道全国各地的竞选活动。
Graham Platner blasts new allegations as ‘false accusations’: ‘Maine, you have my back’
Ex-girlfriends allege a history of violent episodes as the Democrat tries to unseat Susan Collins in key midterm race
June 5, 2026 11:45pm EDT / Fox News
By Paul Steinhauser
Top Platner ally tells Fox News Digital that Platner is ‘taking accountability’ for past ‘toxic’ behavior
Progressive champion Rep. Ro Khanna, a leading Graham Platner supporter, speaks with Fox News Digital about the controversies facing the Maine Democratic Senate candidate.
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BAR HARBOR, Maine – Facing arguably the roughest stretch to date of his campaign for the U.S. Senate, Democratic candidate Graham Platner, back on home turf, thanked a large crowd of supporters for having his back and charging the incoming fire he’s facing as “politically motivated.”
Platner, the military veteran and oyster farmer who is aiming to oust longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in this year’s midterm elections, has been playing defense amid multiple controversies, ranging from inflammatory online comments made on Reddit, a well-publicized and now covered-up tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol, to new allegations last week from ex-girlfriends of a history of rape fantasies, heavy drinking and violent episodes.
“When hurtful things I said on the internet a decade ago came out into the public as I shared my personal journey through PTSD and darkness of recovery and accountability and growth. Maine had my back,” Platner said at a rally Friday. “Now, as every single piece of that past and journey gets dug up, litigated, and weaponized, you have my back. And when politically motivated, serious and false, false accusations are made against me. Maine, you have my back.”
Collins, a moderate Republican who at times votes against President Donald Trump’s agenda, is running for a sixth six-year term in the Senate in left-leaning Maine in a race that’s one of a handful across the country that will determine whether Republicans keep control of their slim Senate majority.
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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks to supporters at a rally in Bar Harbor, Maine, on June 5, 2026(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Platner, who is supported by progressive champions Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Rep. Ro Khanna of California, is pushing an economically populist agenda as he takes aim at corporate influences and advocates for the working class.
He is considered the all-but-certain Democratic nominee after two-term Gov. Janet Mills, who was backed by longtime Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party establishment, dropped out of the race earlier this spring after significantly trailing Platner in fundraising and polling.
Platner, who has acknowledged his battle with post-traumatic stress disorder from his multiple tours of duty in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, apologized for his controversial Reddit posts after they made headlines last fall soon after he launched his Senate campaign.
And Platner has said he got the skull and crossbones tattoo in 2007 while drinking with fellow Marines stationed in Croatia. He said that he covered up the tattoo with a new design after learning last year that it resembled a Nazi symbol. But new allegations raise questions about Platner’s timeline regarding knowledge of the tattoo.
Friday’s rally, which also included speeches by progressive gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson and congressional contender Matt Dunlap, was organized by Khanna.
In an interview with Fox News Digital ahead of his appearance on stage, Khanna was asked whether he’s concerned if the current allegations, and any futures ones, could sink Platner’s campaign and sink Democrats’ hopes of winning back the Senate.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner stand together during a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in Orono, Maine, on May 24, 2026.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
“I’m more concerned about making it clear that we’re opposed to misogyny, those relationships were toxic and volatile, there’s no excuse for that,” Khanna said. “I talked to Graham and he says he was at a very dark period, he had come back from two tours of duty in Iraq as an infantry man seeing violence and death. That doesn’t excuse it.”
But Khanna added that Platner said “he really grew as a person when he came back to Maine and he was an oyster farmer and he found peace and he is ashamed of that period. To me that suggests someone taking accountability and improving their lives and we need that redemption in this country. And I agree with a lot of his economic polices, that we should be taxing the billionaires, we should be focusing on the working class.”
Collins, returning to Maine on Friday after busy week on Capitol Hill where she reached a milestone by casting her 10,000 consecutive vote in the Senate, was asked by reporters about the latest allegations facing Platner.
“The allegations in the latest story are troubling,” Collins responded. “And I believe that Graham Platner has a lot of questions to answer.”
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Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine tours a food bank in Harrison, Maine, on May 5, 2026. The food bank was able to expand thanks to federal funding that the senator helped obtain.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Meanwhile, an outside political group aligned with the senator has been blasting Platner, running ads spotlighting his multiple controversies.
The Republican National Committee (RNC), in a social media post following Friday’s rally, took aim at Platner.
“Graham Platner says his violent and erratic past is being “weaponized” against him. Platner said he would rape someone to show his dominance and “rape was about power,” the RNC research team wrote on X, as it pointed to new allegations against the candidate.
Mills, in a recent interview, noted that her name remains on the ballot. And a source in her wider political orbit confirmed to Fox News that the governor is receiving calls urging her to get back in the race amid Platner’s controversies. But there’s no active campaign effort on behalf of Mills.
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Asked about Mills, Khanna told Fox News Digital “the great thing about democracy, you can run full steam ahead, you can kind of run ambiguously like Janet Mills, you can keep your name on that campaign. That’s why I love American democracy.”
But he predicted that “Platner is going to come out victorious. And we need to unite and realize that the goal is defeating the the Susan Collins. And everyone from Schumer to Sanders is unified around that goal.
Platner’s campaign said that over 600 people packed a theater in this resort town next to Acadia National Park, not far from the candidate’s hometown of Sullivan, to attend the rally. And they touted that they had raked in $200,000 in fundraising the past 24 hours, which they said was their strongest fundraising day since Mills suspended her campaign.
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Maine voters Fox News Digital spoke with ahead of the rally were divided on whether Platner’s controversies will impact their opinions of the candidate.
Jeff from Waterboro, Maine said “it’s not a good situation” as he pointed to Platner. “I think it’s somebody who shouldn’t’ be in the mix. I am a conservative but he’s just got so much damage, if the Democrats want to have a winner, they’re going to have to find somebody else. He’s not the guy. It’s just too much.”
But Ellen from Acton, Maine, who said she is a registered Republican, said “is he a perfect person, heck no.”
“I think he will go in and do a good job,” she added.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.