Senate candidate Graham Platner sent explicit texts to multiple women while married, wife says: report

U.S.Senate candidate Graham Platner exchanged sexual texts with several women after marrying his wife two years ago, according to a report.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Gertner said in a statement to the Journal: “I confided deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend.In the months since, I have had to watch as she spread malicious gossip to anyone who would take her call.I trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives — the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind — and I am deeply hurt by her betrayal and the invasion of our privacy.”

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She added that she and her husband: “Did the hard work that marriage requires.We went to counseling.We were honest with each other in ways that weren’t easy.And we came through it, not in spite of how much we’ve been through, but because of how much we love each other and the life we’ve built.Our marriage today is stronger than ever before.”

Gertner added, “I know who Graham is.I know the man I married and the husband he has been to me on the best and the worst days of my life.That hasn’t changed, and it won’t.”

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Platner, an oyster farmer and veteran who served inAfghanistanand Iraq, has also faced a number of controversies before this, including a since-removed tattoo that resembled a Nazi symbol, and past controversial comments on Reddit minimizing sexual assault and making crude remarks about masturbation and a deleted post where he claimed a wounded soldier “didn’t deserve to live.”

Despite all this, a recentpoll from the University ofNew Hampshire showed Platner holding a 51% to 42% lead among likely Maine voters.

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Graham Platner with his wife Amy Gertner earlier this month.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Platner is considered the presumptive Democratic nominee after Maine Gov.JanetMills dropped out of therace in April.

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Rep.Ro Khanna, D-Calif., reiterated his support for Platner on Saturday.

“I am proud of @grahamformaine for having the character to stand up against the war inIran, against genocide, and against an unfair &lopsided economy,” he wrote on X.“I am proud of him for having a vision for a new deal for our time.Excited to campaign with him June 5!”

Collins has called Platner tooextreme for Maine.

Sen.Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner stand together during a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in Orono, Maine last weekend.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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�What’s radical is somebody like Susan Collins, who, for decades now, has made sure that we pass policies that are going to help corporations and billionaires to the detriment of working people, supporting over and over and over again, illegal and insane foreignwars.”