The implosion of Graham Platner's U.S. Senate campaign in Maine — driven by sexual assault allegations and a wave of abandonment from Democratic leaders — has triggered a high-stakes, time-sensitive scramble to replace him on the ballot, exposing deep fractures within the Democratic Party
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