Bernie Sanders joins Democrats’ calls for Graham Platner to drop out of Maine Senate race as window to replace him narrows – live

According to The Guardian, pressure is mounting on Graham Platner to abandon his Senate campaign in Maine, with Bernie Sanders now among the Democrats urging him to step aside following a sexual assault allegation. The timing is tight: Platner would have to end his campaign by July thirteenth for the party to replace him on the ballot. In separate developments, Donald Trump said he had what he described as a very good talk with Vladimir Putin before arriving in Turkey, and spoke with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of the NATO summit. The exchanges come amid a fresh wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine that have killed at least twenty-one people.

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