Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand mum on Graham Platner bombshell after leading #MeToo charge against Al Franken

WASHINGTON — Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) led the #Metoo effort that took down former Sen.

Al Franken (D-Minn.) and tried to tank Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation — as a self-styled champion of zero-tolerance feminism.But as head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the New York Democrat has refused to disavow embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, even after bombshell New York Times allegations from ex-girlfriends that he despised women and at times physically manhandled them.“We are still going to win Maine,” Gillibrand told CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju after the latest New York Times story interviewing his former girlfriends broke Thursday.A source close to the DSCC told The Post that the main campaign arm for Senate Democrats is now reconsidering spending heavily on ads in Platner’s race to unseat incumbent Republican Sen.Susan Collins (R-Maine) as a result of the sexual misconduct revelations.Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, revealed to a campaign aide last August that her husband had been sexting on his phone with at least six women outside their marriage, forcing the couple to seek marriage counseling, The Times and Wall Street Journal reported.And the candidate had maintained an active account — with a picture of himself stripped to the waist and wearing only a white towel — on the private messaging app Kik, which has been accused of being a hotbed for adultery, casual hook-ups and sexual predation.That’s on top of new details gleaned in the Times from ex-girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield about a tattoo on the candidate’s chest that he had previously denied knowing was a Nazi symbol — despite referring to it as such in conversations with her more than a decade ago.Gillibrand struck a different tone following accusations of sexual misconduct that eventually drove Franken from office in December 2017.“I do not feel that he should continue to serve,” Gillibrand said ...