{"id":57771,"date":"2026-07-09T10:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/57771\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:57:51","slug":"democratic-candidate-for-key-senate-seat-steps-down-over-sexual-assault-allegation-france-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/57771\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic candidate for key Senate seat steps down over sexual assault allegation \u2022 FRANCE 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Democratic candidate for key Senate seat steps down over sexual assault allegation \u2022 FRANCE 24\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cDdFxPyJPLo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDemocratic candidate for key Senate seat steps down over sexual assault allegation \u2022 FRANCE 24<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Democratic Senate nominee for Maine, Graham Platner, has withdrawn from the race following accusations of sexual assault, among other controversies. Platner continues to deny the allegations, saying he&#8217;s dropping out due to losing his party&#8217;s support. It&#8217;s a key seat for the Democrats, who are hoping to retake the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections.<br \/>\n#uspolitics #democrats #midterms<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic candidate for key Senate seat steps down over sexual assault allegation \u2022 FRANCE 24 The Democratic Senate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9722,9116,22,23,20,21,15682,50624,50625,50626,50627,50628,50629,50630,42825,9725,4259,197,2696,37224,578,42830,30264,33961],"class_list":["post-57771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-democratic-party","tag-democrats","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-graham-platner","tag-main","tag-main-democrats","tag-main-primaries","tag-maine-election","tag-platner","tag-platner-controversy","tag-platner-scandal","tag-primaries","tag-rape","tag-sexual-assault","tag-us","tag-us-congress","tag-us-midterms","tag-us-politics","tag-us-primaries","tag-us-republicans","tag-us-senate"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}