You married?
Eh, sexting is cheating, unless you and your partner have an understanding that it’s okay to do that with other people. Sexting is more than flirting or looking.
Cheating- ie. sex is cheating. Not flirting not fantasies, and his wife big issue with it, is the way it has been reported-
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5903669-platner-campaign-gossip-controversy/
Amy Gertner, the wife of Maine Senate Democratic candidate Graham Platner, is calling coverage of her husband’s reported past texting with multiple women “shameful,” arguing in a video it is “gossip” that takes attention away from serious issues.
“If anybody knows me and Graham personally, you know that we got married in 2023. We live in Sullivan. We’ve got two dogs, and we love each other deeply,” Gertner said in a video message posted over the weekend on Platner’s account on the social platform X.
If she is okay, then- who are we to say no?
He sure doesn’t sound married to me.
She doesn’t sound all that okay with it. But i agree that it’s not a deal breaker.
Would you like me to also post other data for doxxing? Are you married? how long? Kids? We were warned about this- note. In fact, I live in a commune (not true) and have sixteen wives (same). Come on.
Look people, he SEXTED! It’s not like he had an affair with a porn star during his third marriage and tried to illegally pay her hush money like Republicans find totally acceptable.
“Better than Trump” is a pretty low standard. I’d vote for Susan Collins over Donald Trump in a heartbeat.
Honestly, I’m half-convinced at this point that the Democratic Party leadership is trying to sabotage Platner because they’d rather let Republicans keep the Senate than let progressives get elected and have people expect them to actually do things to help common people instead of kissing up to corporate interests and AIPAC.
It’s the Democratic Party’s fault that Platner is a walking scandal machine who literally can’t go 4–5 months without some new issue coming out? That doesn’t make much sense.
Arguing that his challengers in the Democratic primary shouldn’t bring up negative information about him defeats the entire purpose of having primary elections in the first place. Primaries are supposed to help choose the strongest possible candidate for the general election.
The idea that Democrats should have just stuck their heads in the sand and ignored his issues also ignores reality: Republicans would absolutely spend far more money and effort on opposition research during the general election anyway.
We saw them run this same playbook with Mamdani - they smeared him as being antisemitic and radical to try to kill his chances of winning the nomination, and when he won it anyway, they endorsed his opponent. The party leadership these days is more concerned with stopping progressives than it is stopping Republicans.
He doesn’t have challengers at this point. The only other significant candidate dropped out because he was leading by 30 points. He is the presumptive nominee.
You say “half convinced” here, along with quite a specific interest.
And then you make another assertation here without the provisos, though not it’s not quite so extreme as the first.
I’ll allow myself to be convinced, and you aren’t wrong that Mamdani got treated poorly, but when the writing was on the wall, I didn’t see any evidence that they supported his opponent after the primary, though sure the enthusiasm was extremely underwhelming.
So, TL:DR - Cites? Feel free to take the Mamdani discussion to the NYC Mayor’s election thread though if you feel it should be discussed outside the context of Platner’s treatment so we don’t hijack this thread.
Unless by “party leadership” you mean Congressman Tom Suozzi by himself, you certainly saw no such thing.
[Eta: saw the mod note non note post, I’m only correcting the record on a specific factual claim in reference to how Democrats treat people like Platner, not as part of a deeper discussion on Mamdani]
Sexting is kinda sorta cheating. Which just goes to show the guy’s ineptitude. He can’t even figure out how to cheat correctly.
We have had some great presidents who were bona fide cheaters… mostly Democrats.
I’d say probably a lot of them, of both parties. But nobody seems to care except when it’s a Democrat.
I’m sure the Republicans would care if it were a woman caught cheating. But i think they, in general, embrace the double standard, that it’s okay for strong men to cheat on their wives, because strong men are virile, and physical expressions of male virility are natural and good.
They didn’t,
Marjorie Taylor Greene affair
Lauren Boebert affair
I heard a quote from one of the many Bulwark podcasts … paraphrasing a bit.
“Platner is a scumbug…Maine voters need to vote for him”…
(seems to relate to that other leftist Dem thread here)
Akin to “Vote for the Crook: It’s Important”. Edwin Edwards, however, at least had a long political track record at the time including serving two prior terms as Louisiana governor.
Apparently just a couple of weeks ago Platner was asked if he had anything else he wanted to get ahead of, both at a town hall and at an interview, and of course he said no:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/graham-platner-maine-senate-texts.html
I guess we will see what else comes out about him. The sexting happened on Kik, an app notrious for the shady shit that goes on and the level of anonymity it provides. Platner’s account was still active on there as of a couple of days ago, and his profile picture was still him in a towel. And Kik has a very young user base. 70% of Kik users are between 13 and 24. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see an October Surprise that results in criminal charges.
And it was important to vote for the crook because the alternative was a white supremacist.