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Looks like we won’t have Graham Platner to kick around anymore.

Graham Platner Officially Quits Senate Race, and His Withdrawal Letter Is Peak Platner

Graham Platner is done pretending. The communist Nazi rapist who spent months building a populist crusade against Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has officially withdrawn from Maine’s Senate race, the Secretary of State’s office confirmed late Friday afternoon, and he made sure his exit was every bit as insufferable as his campaign.

Platner suspended his campaign earlier this week after a former girlfriend accused him of rape, an allegation he denies.

Make no mistake about it, Platner didn’t leave quietly.

In his official withdrawal letter to the Maine Department of the Secretary of State’s Division of Elections, he framed his exit as some kind of populist sacrifice rather than a retreat from a rape allegation. “My name may have been on the ballot, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine,” Platner wrote. “As such, please consider this notice as my official withdrawal from consideration for this office.”

Then came the sign-off. “F\*\*k ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts,” Platner wrote, closing his letter with “Solidarity forever.”

What a jackass.

I honestly thought Platner’s beef with his own party might have kept him from withdrawing at all, leaving Democrats stuck defending him whether they liked it or not.

In the end, he filed the paperwork.

So, it’s over. Or is it? He may not be the candidate anymore, but don’t expect Graham Platner to disappear quietly into the Maine woods. Something tells me he’ll still be a thorn in the Democrat Party’s side long after his name comes off that ballot.

Oh, I dunno. My own strong suspicion is that a year from now, nobody will even remember his name, for more than just one single reason.