India, July 11 -- Maine Democrat Graham Platner formally withdrew from his US Senate bid on Friday, ending his campaign with an F-bomb in his official withdrawal letter to state elections officials.

Platner posted a picture of the letter on X, which did not share any immediate details about who he hoped would succeed him to face Republican incumbent Sen Susan Collins in November.

The letter touted the 156,084 votes he had received in Maine's Senate Democratic primary last month, suggesting his more than 70-percentage-point win showed: "People are desperate for change."

"Mainers voted for a new kind of politics," the letter read. "One that is representative of people down here in the real world- not billionaires, oligarchs or the politi...