Graham Platner’s Wife Amy Gertner Told His Maine Senate Campaign About Explicit Texts

Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Maine’s Senate race, faced fresh scrutiny after his wife, Amy Gertner, told his campaign about sexually explicit texts he sent to other women during an internal vetting process in 2025, according to the CBS News report.

“The wife of Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner told his campaign in 2025 about sexual messages he had sent to other women”

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CBS News said Gertner told the campaign about the messages in 2025 at the beginning of his campaign and that she wrote in a statement provided by the Platner campaign that their marriage today is "stronger than ever before."

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The Boston Globe reported that the Wall Street Journal said Gertner revealed the texts to a campaign aide shortly after Platner launched his US Senate bid last August, and that the campaign’s braintrust decided it was a private issue and moved forward with a scheduled rally with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

The Boston Globe also reported that Gertner accused the person she said she confided with of going on to "spread malicious gossip to anyone who would take her call."

The Independent reported that Gertner told a campaign staffer she found explicit messages Platner sent to women in the spring of 2025, and that the staffer later told The Times the messages were flagged during vetting as a possible political liability.

The Boston Globe said the New York Times confirmed the Wall Street Journal report and added that Gertner disclosed the details to Genevieve McDonald, a Democratic state lawmaker who was an early aide to Platner before resigning in October.

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According to the Boston Globe, the Times reported that Gertner told McDonald Platner had been sending explicit texts with as many as a dozen women, while a Platner official told the paper it was up to six women.

The Independent also reported that Platner’s campaign told the Wall Street Journal that "the candidate had long deleted the app from his phone but hadn’t deactivated his account."

CBS News said the winner of the Maine Senate race is expected to play a key role in which party controls the chamber after the midterms, and it described Platner as the presumptive Democratic nominee likely to face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the November midterm elections.

“Nazi-tattoo sporting lefty Senate candidate Graham Platner’s had an account on the casual sex hookup app Kik and was reportedly caught sexting with numerous women – with photos from that profile obtained by The Post”

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CBS News reported that Platner has been endorsed by, and campaigned with, progressive Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and it noted that he ran a populist campaign centered around his working-class background.

The Boston Globe said Democrats’ hopes of defeating Collins — and taking back the Senate — now rest on Platner’s shoulders, after he boxed out Governor Janet Mills from the primary following her failure to blunt his momentum in polls and fundraising.

The Boston Globe reported that Mills suspended her campaign last month, clearing Platner’s path to the nomination in the June 9 primary election, and it said a third candidate, David Costello, remained in the race though he had badly trailed Platner and Mills in polling and fundraising.