BAR HARBOR, Maine — Rep. Ro Khanna of California on Friday mentioned that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner ought to apologize to the ladies who lately got here ahead describing disturbing habits they skilled with him.
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In a short interview with NBC Information, Khanna — right here to rally on behalf of Platner and different Democratic candidates earlier than Tuesday’s major — mentioned that he rejected the habits Platner allegedly displayed in opposition to three girls who described their previous relationships with Platner to The New York Occasions.
Khanna mentioned that Platner has proven redemption. When requested whether or not Platner ought to go additional and apologize to the ladies, Khanna agreed.
“I feel he ought to apologize. I consider what he did was flawed, was misogynistic, was poisonous or risky,” he mentioned in a short interview with NBC Information. “I do know he’s ashamed of it and I definitely suppose it will be applicable to apologize and say how he now understands why it’s vital to face as much as a misogynistic tradition.”
Three former girlfriends described “poisonous” and “unsettling” habits from Platner after they dated, and one girl, Lyndsey Fifield, mentioned Platner as soon as “twisted her arm behind her again, shoved her right into a bed room and held the door closed from the opposite aspect so she couldn’t get out, telling her to stay there till she was ‘calm.’”
Platner disputed a few of the allegations, together with that he had been bodily abusive.
In an interview with MS NOW on Thursday, Platner mentioned, “Something alleging physicality, something alleging that I knew what my tattoo was, these are the statements of somebody who’s politically motivated.”
Fifield has labored for conservative teams and Republican campaigns.
Khanna is the highest-profile nationwide determine to again Platner, a day after the intense allegations had been leveled in opposition to the Senate candidate.
Later, in entrance of a crowd gathered for an occasion that includes Platner and candidates for governor and congress, Khanna defended Platner.
“He understood that these years that he got here again weren’t the perfect years of his life,” Khanna later mentioned earlier than a crowd. “Then he, in contrast to others, took accountability for it. And he’s labored to be a greater man, a greater human being.”
