Graham Platner's wife told campaign about sexually explicit texts he sent to other women: Report
Campaign aides said the messages were a private marital issue and continued vetting as Platner’s fundraising and polling gains kept him ahead of Susan Collins.
- On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amy Gertner, wife of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, disclosed sexually explicit texts between Platner and other women to campaign aides in late August 2025.
- Campaign officials treated the messages as a private marital matter rather than a political liability, deciding to continue as planned before a Labor Day rally with Senator Bernie Sanders.
- Defending their relationship as 'stronger than ever before,' Gertner released a video Saturday accusing a former aide of spreading 'malicious gossip' about their private life.
- The disclosure, involving as many as a dozen women, resurfaced alongside Platner's deleted Reddit posts and a chest tattoo resembling Nazi imagery, fueling national scrutiny of his candidacy.
- Democrats remain anxious about the impact on Platner's race against incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins, though recent polling shows him leading despite the accumulating baggage.
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Why the Attacks on Graham Platner Don’t Work
It seems like there’s no end to the embarrassing news about Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine. This week, a former Platner campaign official revealed that Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, discovered sexually explicit texts her husband had sent to several women, and reported them to his campaign shortly after he announced his run. Gertner has stood by her man since the news broke, and so have most Democrats. Yet Republicans…
How Long Will Democrats Keep Defending Platner? – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
To get a sense of how bereft the Democrats are of genuine principles, a good place to start is their defense of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. This is the “oyster farmer” they hope can unseat five-term Republican Senator Susan Collins in November. And, in that cause, they are willing to overlook a lot of controversies surrounding Platner. Among these is the tattoo of a Totenkopf, the insignia of the Nazi SS, which he sported on his chest…
Seventeen thoughts on Graham Platner
Graham Platner fighting the oligarchy. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAll of politics Twitter and several group chats I’m in have been buzzing all day about this Wall Street Journal scoop revealing that during the early phases of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign, his wife, in the spirit of doing self-oppo research, shared that she’d caught her husband texting with other women. And checking out the mailbag this week, I saw we got a bunch of Main…
DAM BREAK: The Elitist Media Sunday Shows Finally Cover Graham Platner's Scandals
As we’ve often said: what the Elitist Media cover on their newscasts and Sunday political affairs shows is almost as important as what they DON’T cover. This was the case with the Democrat Senate candidate from Maine: Graham Platner, where there was no mention of him at all. But the latest sexting allegations have forced a change. In a notable exchange, perhaps the first on a Sunday show wherein an elected Democrat is challenged on Platner, CNN…
Democrats’ June primary test: Can the party stop its radical flank?
The latest revelations that Graham Platner, the Democrats’ anti-establishment, far-left standard-bearer in the Maine Senate race, was sending sexually explicit texts to as many as a dozen women while he was married — an issue his wife raised to campaign staff as a potential liability — are the latest sign that the candidate’s extensive baggage may be too much for the party to handle. (As Israeli commentator Haviv Rettig Gur posted on X: “Im star…
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