Dan Bongino says Democrats dumped Graham Platner over ‘power’ not ‘principle’ after bombshell rape allegation

Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino accused top Democrats of putting “power” ahead of principle, insisting many have only turned on embattled Senate candidate Graham Platner after concluding he could no longer win.

“There were no principles involved here at all,” Bongino told “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday.

“The left are the anti-anti-communist. They’re just against us and whatever we stand for to advance their communist agenda, and this guy was a tool that’s no longer sharp for them.”

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Dan Bongino, then-deputy director of the FBI, participates in a news conference at the Department of Justice on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, announcing the arrest of Brian Cole Jr., who allegedly placed pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee offices on Jan. 6, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Several Democrats and progressives, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., have either rescinded their support for Platner or called on him to end his campaign following a rape accusation.

While still reeling from the initial accusation, Platner was hit with a second allegation of sexual impropriety about 24 hours later when, according to a Washington Post report, he was accused of removing condoms during sex with his ex-girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield after she explicitly asked him to wear them.

The shocking allegations have further jeopardized an already scandal-plagued campaign to oust incumbent Sen. Susan Collins.

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner participates in a television interview on May 1, 2026, in Portland, Maine, following a campaign event with the Maine AFL-CIO. (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)

Platner’s campaign has denied both accusations, specifically telling The Washington Post that the latter of the two was “categorically false and politically motivated.”

Platner’s campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s previous requests for comment.

Bongino and other Republicans have blasted Democrats after their sweeping change of heart regarding Platner.

“This is not about any principle whatsoever. It’s not about Platner’s position on women or taxes or anything like that. This is about a simple power equation,” Bongino said.

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“Platner was an acquisition tool for more power for this collectivist communist left. That is it. The sole principle in their triage of needs was power, and he was a useful tool to get there.”

Fox News’ Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report.