Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, flagship ABC newscasts World News Tonight and Good Morning America refused to mention new disturbing allegations from Graham Platner ex-girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield, who shared new instances of verbal abuse and said he repeatedly had unprotected sex without her consent. Instead, ABC chose to only continue emphasizing the rape allegations from Jenny Racicot, another ex-girlfriend of the Maine Democrat candidate.
GMA spent three minutes on Platner, but couldn’t find a single second to mention Fifield. Perhaps it’s because Fifield is a conservative and Racicot a progressive? Perhaps, considering ABC seemed particularly concerned about the fallout for it’d imperil the Democrats’ chances in Maine.
Co-host Michael Strahan huffed in a tease about an “exit strategy” to influence “the scramble to replace him” “as his campaign collapses.”
“We’re going to go now to the growing pressure on Democrat Graham Platner to drop out of the Maine Senate race after a woman accused him of sexual assault. Platner is being urged to step aside in a critical race for Democrats, hoping to take control of the Senate,” he later said in cuing up D.C.-based correspondent Jay O’Brien.
BIAS BY OMISSION: Wednesday’s ‘Good Morning America’ spent three minutes on Graham Platner, but not one second on the new allegations @LyndseyFifield spoke about with CNN and The Washington Post pic.twitter.com/PALdlH7sql
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 8, 2026
O’Brien relayed that while Platner “is still in the race….his campaign now confirming it’s discussed a possible exit strategy with Democratic leaders in that state and that already leading to a clash” about the future of “a race that could decide control of Congress.”
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