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Platner's wife told campaign about sexually explicit texts he sent other women
The wife of Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner told his campaign in 2025 about sexual messages he had sent to other women.
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Platner’s Wife Flagged His Sexual Texts With Other Women as Maine Senate Race Began
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The wife of Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate in Maine, told the campaign he had sent sexual messages to other women.
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Graham Platner’s wife ‘angry’ her disclosures of his extramarital sexting were made public
The wife of Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, said she is “really angry” about reports that she had previously told her husband’s campaign he had exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women.“It makes me really angry, disappointed,” Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, said in a direct-to-camera video released by Platner’s campaign on Saturday night.
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Mamdani spin doctor accused of threatening Graham Platner’s ex-staffer before she blew whistle on sexting scandal
A top adviser to embattled Senate hopeful Graham Platner pressured the campaign's former political director into lying about the horny oyster farmer's sexting scandal and threatened to destroy her career.
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Republicans, Stop Fighting. Senate Is Up for Grabs
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wins the GOP Senate runoff after President Trump's endorsement, setting up a contested race against James Talarico.
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Trump's Texas Senate Primary Win Is Going To Backfire
While MAGA candidate Ken Paxton's win isn't an assured victory for Democrats, he'll at least embroil the GOP in a nightmare of its own making.
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Cory Booker Has ‘Concerns’ About Platner Revelations in Maine Senate Race
Mr. Booker and other Senate Democrats faced questions Sunday about reports that Mr. Platner’s wife previously told his campaign he had exchanged sexual messages with women outside his marriage.
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Another Republican Senate Seat in Play
Ken Paxton's Texas primary victory puts another Republican Senate seat in play, alongside those of North Carolina, Maine, Ohio, and Alaska.
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Sen. Chris Murphy says Platner ‘made mistakes’ after explicit texts revealed
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Sunday said Democratic candidate in Maine’s Senate race Graham Platner “made mistakes” after reports that his wife found sexually explicit texts with several women on his phone and brought it to his campaign’s attention. Speaking with CBS News’s Face the Nation, Murphy was asked if Platner passed the “character test” […]
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