Dem Maine State Representative Valli Geiger tells WMTW she’s spoken with soon-to-be-ex-US Senate nominee Graham Platner and that she is his pick to replace him on the ticket.
“He said ‘Valli you are a fighter, you have been with this movement since the beginning,'” Geiger said of her Monday night conversation with the doomed candidate. Geiger then pulled her endorsement the next day in an equivocal statement, saying “I will not throw Graham under the bus, but neither will I slander or accuse [Platner’s rape accuser] Ms Racicot of anything more than telling the truth as she experienced it. I acknowledge the pain on all sides and offer compassion on all sides. But there are no winners here, something profoundly hopeful has been lost.” Proooobably not enough here.