ME-SEN: CNN interviews Platner accuser Jenny Racicot. [View all]

In an interview with CNN, Jenny Racicot, 41, said the attack occurred in the Maine town where she lived in 2021, two years after she and Platner began casually dating. The interview will be broadcast on The Lead with Jake Tapper.

Racicot said one night in November or December 2021, Platner showed up drunk at her house after she asked him not to come and then forcibly had sex with her despite her repeated demands that he stop – at one point knocking over a sewing cabinet, which inadvertently left a needle stuck in her leg. When she confronted him the next morning, he said he did not remember what had happened, Racicot said.

Racicot said she did not report the incident to authorities at the time, and she broke off contact with him soon afterward. Asked if she now considered the incident a rape, Racicot said, “By definition yes, absolutely yes.”

She said she did not have a political motive to come forward with her story. She said she is a registered Democratic voter who supports many of Platner’s views.



https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/us/graham-platner-racicot-allegation-maine-invs?Date=20260706&Profile=CNNPolitics&utm_content=1783371098&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter