July 08, 2026 5:22 PM ET Drop Site journalist Ryan Grim authenticated messages Wednesday showing that Politico omitted a key detail about the sexual assault allegations against Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. A Politico reporter obtained Jenny Racicot’s text messages between herself and Platner, in which she reportedly told him she needed her “glute massaged” before telling him not to come over. The reporter mentioned this message to the Platner campaign, but later said the detail “didn’t make [their] story.”In an interview with Politico, Racicot accused Platner of entering her home uninvited in 2021 and forcibly having sex with her without her consent. She later told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Platner had “taken something I said as an invitation,” though Tapper did not follo