Tamara Keith and Carrie Dann on Platner facing calls to drop out of Maine Senate race
About this episode
Tamara Keith and Carrie Dann discuss the political implications of Graham Platner facing calls to withdraw from the Maine Senate race amid sexual assault allegations.
NPR's Tamara Keith and Carrie Dann of the Cook Political Report join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including Democrats in Maine scrambling and calling on Graham Platner to drop out of the Senate race as a sexual assault accuser comes forward, the direction of the Democratic Party into the midterms and what happened in Washington during the nation's 250th anniversary. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
People in this episode
Host: Amna Nawaz
Guests: Tamara Keith, Carrie Dann
Topics covered
- Maine Senate race
- Democratic Party
- sexual assault allegations
- midterms
- political news
Keywords
- Maine
- Senate race
- Graham Platner
- Democrats
- sexual assault
- midterms
- political news
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Organizations: NPR, Cook Political Report
Places: Maine
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