The wife of Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the Senate in Maine, said she is “really angry” about reports that she previously told her husband’s campaign he had exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.“It makes me really angry, disappointed,” Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, said in a direct-to-camera video Platner’s campaign released Saturday night.“And I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on.”The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that Gertner told Platner’s campaign about the sexually explicit texts last year, near the start of his Senate bid.
Her disclosure came during a conversation with campaign officials about potential opposition research into Platner, the two outlets reported, with the Times citing a former senior official in Platner’s campaign and the Journal citing people familiar with the matter.Platner’s campaign confirmed he sent multiple women sexually explicit texts at the beginning of his marriage.“Amy and I went through something hard — because of me,” Platner said in a statement.“We did the work, and I’m grateful for her every hour of every day.
I’ve learned throughout this campaign is that people don’t care about gossip or headlines, they care that you’re fighting for their hospitals, their paycheck, their kids.This campaign is about the ideas that will move Maine forward and past a broken politics of the past.
Our opponents want politics to be empty of content and empty of actual change — and beating that is exactly what our movement is about.”In addition, NBC News verified a Kik account tied to Platner after it visually matched the tattoos visible in the profile photo to tattoos on his torso and arms.Kik is a popular pl...