Graham Platner cuts DC trip short after The Post starts asking questions about his past, as mother-in-law says: Its all bulls

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner abruptly ended his fundraising trip to DC Tuesday after The Post showed up in his hometown to start asking questions about his past — prompting his mother-in-law to declare allegations of him sexting other women while married “all bulls—.”A Post reporter visited Platner’s stomping grounds in southern Maine — including his in-laws‘ home and a restaurant and inn run by the candidate’s mother — as the Senate hopeful was meeting with Democrats at their main campaign committee’s headquarters on Capitol Hill.“It’s bulls—,” said Elaine Crabtree — mother of Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner — at her Hope, Maine, residence about the sexting allegations.“It’s not true.

That’s all I have to say.”“I think Amy is a wonderful, amazing person,” she added.“I think Graham is a wonderful, amazing person.

They are trying so hard to bring about positive change.It’s too bad, the political system right now.

It’s spending so much money on negative ads, it’s a shame.It should be used for other [things].”Other relatives or family friends were hostile — with two men demanding multiple times that The Post leave the premises. Inside Ironbound Restaurant and Inn in Hancock, Maine, where a “Graham Platner for US Senate” sticker hung in the bar, the candidate’s mom, Leslie Harlow, greeted regulars, several of whom also defended her son.Katie Doble, 49, a regular who says she’s been pals with Platner for about five years, dismissed the sexting scandal. “He’s a good person,” she said.

“He’s very honest and trustworthy.He can be relaxing and working on his oyster farm.

Instead he’s sacrificing to do this.”“I think it’s too bad but the bar is quite low in the Senate,” said David, 34, another Platner supporter from Belfast, Maine. “For me, anything violent probably would definitely make me sit out the election.

… I do think we have a low bar right now,” he ad...