Former President Donald Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway urged Democrats to disown Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner during an appearance on the Fox News "Hannity" show. Conway compared the situation to Republicans' past distancing from David Duke, stating, "Remember, every Republican had to disclaim David Duke, no matter if we met him, had a meal with him, or heard anything he said." Conway demanded every Democrat running for U.S. Senate this year distance themselves from Platner and call for his removal from the ticket. The former advisor's comments came as Platner faced mounting criticism from both parties as he seeks to unseat incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).The Wall Street Journal reported Platner's wife, Amy Gertner, informed Platner's campaign he exchanged sexually explicit text messages with multiple women and maintained an active account on Kik, a private messaging app criticized by child safety advocates. Previously disclosed Reddit comments from Platner have also drawn controversy.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
Platner met with Democrats on Capitol Hill following bombshell reports in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal about his suggestive texts with at least six women.
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York weighed in on the sexting scandal surrounding Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. “Public opinion hasn’t caught up — there’s a lot of things we don’t know about this,” York said Tuesday on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. York argued that the recent allegations […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) unloaded criticism Tuesday against fellow Democrat Graham Platner, the party’s embattled presumptive nominee who’s set to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in Maine’s battleground Senate race. A centrist with a track record of bucking Democrats, Fetterman compared Platner’s latest controversy, an extramarital sexting scandal, to disgraced former California Democratic Rep. Eric […]
The hits keep coming for Graham Platner, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in the race for one of Maine's U.S. Senate seats.On Monday the women of "The View" trashed Platner's campaign and said he has no business being anywhere near Congress after grappling with so many scandals.'You’ve shown me who you are, and I heard you. This man should be nowhere near Congress.'The most recent revelation that Platner, who is married, sent sexually explicit messages to at least half a dozen women in recent years is just the latest sting for his campaign."On the heels of apologizing for a tattoo associated with Nazis, the offensive posts about a wounded U.S. soldier. Now his wife, Amy Gertner, is responding to reports that she gave his campaign a heads-up about her husband sending sexually explicit texts to several different women," said Whoopi Goldberg."Horrible. There is no doubt that this guy, Platner, is flawed, flawed, flawed in many ways," added Ana Navarro. "It is disturbing, and it is horrible. And why can't we do better? Why can't we have better candidates?""This guy just seems like a guy of not very good character," said former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin. "Don't die on the hill of a guy who's going to be a headache for you for years to come."Sara Haines took special offense to Platner previously saying a U.S. soldier should have died on the battlefield."If you are capable of saying that at any time in your life, you’ve shown me who you are, and I heard you. This man should be nowhere near Congress. We’ve already got a wealth of people we need out. We’re not sending one like this in.""So he's a cheater," added Sunny Hostin. "He's an anti-Semite — because the fact that he had that tattoo for 20 years and didn't know what it was is a lie. So he's a liar, a racist, an anti-Semite; he's a homophobe. So he's all the things. And character does matter."Hostin also did not accept Platner's excuse that his racist comments were caused by post-traumatic stress disorder from his experiences in combat as a Marine."I know a lot of soldiers that have PTSD that aren't racist," she said.However, despite all of the problems they cited with Platner, Hostin went on to say they needed the victory in Maine to take control of the Senate away from Republicans. The Republican Party in Maine posted clips of the most critical comments in a video that was widely circulated on social media. RELATED: Trans-identifying 15-year-old plotted to kill classmate in order to resurrect Newtown shooter In response to the sexting scandal, Platner's wife put out a video calling the story "gossip" and trying to downplay it. Many described her video as uncomfortable to watch.Platner is presumed to be the Democratic nominee to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who has been criticized by many in her own party for being moderate and centrist. Platner's main Democratic rival, Gov. Janet Mills, suspended her campaign in late April.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
