Hi, everyone. It is 4 o'clock here in New York. I'm Antonia Hilton in today for my friend Nicole Wallace.

A deeply disturbing new report published in the last hour about Graham Platner is shaking up the crucial U.S. Senate race in Maine.

Politico has new bombshell reporting from a woman who dated Graham Platner who says Platner forced her to have

sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections from that reporting. The woman

of 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Rassico detailed the alleged incident to Politico in

three interviews over the course of the past two weeks.

Politico also spoke with a man Rassico dated and confided in the years after the alleged

incident and reviewed documents, including emails between her and her therapist and messages

between Rassico and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Plattner

years before he ran for office.

Rasko said she had an on and off again relationship with Platner,

who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine for more than two years before he entered

her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated,

and he forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said, she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not

consensual. I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me. She said,

I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself,

like this is no longer my choice.

Platner has denied the allegations telling Politico,

quote, these allegations are troubling, serious, and false.

Any accusation of non-consensual behavior

is categorically untrue.

Graham Platner released a video just moments ago,

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