Platner Hit With Second Condom Allegation That May Finally Have His Own Party Fleeing

A Maine Democrat running for Senate is already fighting for his political life over a rape accusation.

Now a second woman is stepping forward with her own condom allegation against him.

What she says happened between them is spreading through Washington and sending his own party running for the exits.

Second Accuser Comes Forward Days After Rape Allegation Rocked Campaign

Lyndsey Fifield dated Platner in Washington, D.C., from 2013 to 2015.

She told the Washington Post that Platner repeatedly removed condoms during sex without telling her.

"He would pull condoms off," she reportedly told the Post.

Fifield said she was not on birth control and had told Platner directly that he needed to wear protection.

She claims he ignored her wishes at least six times during their two-year relationship.

Fifield says she confronted him every time, and he brushed it off like a joke.

Her account comes one day after another former girlfriend, Jenny Racicot, accused Platner of forcing himself on her in 2021.

Racicot told Politico that Platner showed up drunk and uninvited at her Maine home and raped her despite her protests.

Fifield says she went public specifically to show Racicot she was not alone.

Platner's campaign called Fifield's claims "categorically false and politically motivated" in a statement to the Post, pointing to her public support for Justice Brett Kavanaugh as evidence of bias, according to the Daily Caller.

Democrats Abandon Their Own Candidate As Scandal Spirals

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened to cut off all Democratic Party money if Platner stays on the ballot.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren dropped her endorsement, saying "there can be no tolerance for sexual assault," according to Fox News.

Rep. Ro Khanna called the allegations a "red line" and withdrew his endorsement, according to the Daily Caller.

Sens. Ruben Gallego and Martin Heinrich pulled their support within hours.

Even Bernie Sanders, who campaigned at Platner's side for months, told him to step aside.

The Maine Democratic Party said its support for survivors does not change based on party affiliation.

None of these Democrats blinked at Platner's Nazi-style chest tattoo or his old Reddit posts joking about violence.

It took two separate women accusing him of sexual violation in the same week to finally spook the party.

Platner has not dropped out.

He says he is "taking the time to reflect on the best path forward" while the clock runs out on Maine's July 13 withdrawal deadline.

What Fifield Is Describing Has A Name

The practice Fifield describes is known as stealthing, and it is not some fringe internet term.

Canada's Supreme Court ruled in the Kirkpatrick case that secretly removing a condom during sex can constitute criminal sexual assault.

California made stealthing a form of civil sexual battery in 2021, and Washington and Maine have since passed their own laws acknowledging it.

There is still no federal law in America that criminalizes the practice outright.

Researchers who study stealthing have found the men who do it tend to show higher hostility toward women.

Fifield told the Washington Post she raised the pregnancy risk with Platner directly, since she was not on birth control.

Researchers who study stealthing note that victims also face exposure to sexually transmitted infections.

Democrats Built Their Whole Brand On This Exact Issue

Democrats have spent a decade lecturing the country about believing women and respecting bodily autonomy.

Chuck Schumer built his career on the promise that consent is nonnegotiable.

Now their own handpicked nominee stands accused by two different women of violating that exact principle in the most personal way possible.

Platner still refuses to leave the race, and reports say he wants to hand-pick his own replacement on the way out.

That is not the behavior of a man confident the allegations are false.

That is the behavior of a candidate trying to control the exit before the party controls it for him.

Maine Republicans could not have scripted a better collapse for the Democrat trying to unseat Sen. Susan Collins.

Every day Platner stays on the ballot is another day Democrats have to answer for the man they built up and are now scrambling to bury.

Sources:

• Staff, "Ex-Girlfriend Claims Platner Removed Condoms During Sex Without Her Consent," Daily Wire, July 7, 2026.
• Staff, "Platner ex alleges candidate removed condoms during sex without consent," Washington Examiner, July 7, 2026.
• Staff, "Graham Platner Removed Condoms During Sex Without Consent, Ex-Girlfriend Claims," Daily Caller, July 8, 2026.
• Peter D'Abrosca, "Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner hit with second sex allegation," Fox News, July 7, 2026.