The hits just keep coming for the Democrats’ golden boy, Graham Platner, with the latest revelations being eye-opening not just because they contain icky, salacious details that go well beyond fantasizing about self-pleasuring in porta-potties, but also because of how mainstream media outlets obtained the information.
The newest scandal first landed on the pages of The Wall Street Journal, which reported Saturday that the presumptive Maine Senate Democrat nominee had sexted with multiple women while Platner and his wife, Amy Gertner, were more or less still in the newlywed phase. Gertner alerted officials with his Senate campaign early on when they were conducting their own opposition research.
And now, several months later, and just ahead of the June primary, the public knows about them too:
Days after Graham Platner announced his Maine Senate bid, his wife informed the campaign about a potential political problem she had previously discovered on the oyster farmer’s phone: sexually explicit texts with several women, according to people familiar with the matter.Amy Gertner, who married Platner in [2023], told the campaign about messages she had found early in their marriage in the spring of 2025. In late August, as some aides were conducting opposition research on their own candidate, Gertner disclosed the texts to a campaign aide to make sure they didn’t pose a risk to her husband’s nascent campaign, those people said. The campaign had been preparing for a major rally over Labor Day weekend last year with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was set to officially endorse Platner at the event.Aides ultimately decided the texts were a private matter that was being handled by the couple in marriage counseling, a campaign official said. The rally proceeded as planned, with thousands in attendance.
While The WSJ didn’t provide details on the substance of the texts, they did note that Platner also still had an active account on Kix, which might be even more creepy than having a sexting affair:
Platner also has an active account on Kik, a popular, private messaging app. Platner’s profile shows a mirror selfie of him shirtless with a towel wrapped around his waist. Many of his tattoos are clearly visible in the picture.
Except it appears “phustle0331” opted to strategically cover the Nazi tattoo, for some strange reason:
Incredibly, Platner now appears to be using his wife as a human shield to deflect from criticism:
On Saturday evening, she also released a lengthy direct-to-camera video acknowledging that the couple had faced challenges, but saying that “our marriage counselor helps, my personal counselor helps, Graham’s personal counselor helps, and we work on our mental health every day.”
“No marriage is perfect, and I don’t want a perfect marriage,” Ms. Gertner said. “I want my marriage, and I want to be married to Graham.”
Watch:
Neither the video nor his apologists’ excuses for him went over well on X:
https://x.com/redsteeze/status/2060889803349196918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
A few things to add to all of this: Clearly, this was sourced from either inside the campaign or from former staffers who left after the first of the Reddit posts were unearthed, and it just goes to show that there is indeed an internal war brewing among Democrats over whether they made a mistake with going all in for a complete political novice like Platner.
Some on X were even talking about how these oppo dumps could be groundwork for Democrats to do what they did to Joe Biden and essentially force or shame Platner to withdraw from the race so they can install a new nominee:
Republicans have already indicated that the oppo they have on Platner was so wild that he’d probably “have to leave” Maine:
Mark Halperin said Friday on 2WAY’s “The Morning Meeting” that an NRSC source tells him the opposition research they have yet to release on presumed Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is so damaging that he won’t just lose the election, “he’ll have to leave the state.”Platner is the presumed winner of the Democratic primary despite reports that he had a tattoo with Nazi iconography and a history of online comments that could offend almost anyone.”The NRSC says they’re going to go so negative on Platner,” Halperin said. “I saw one of the spokespeople say he’ll have to leave the state. He won’t just lose the race, he’ll have to leave Maine.”
I can’t wait.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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