Graham Platner's troubles deepen as wife's warning about explicit texts surfaces

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By Bennito L. Kelty
Published May 30, 2026 3:42 PM ET

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner sank deeper into hot water as his wife revealed that she found sexually explicit texts on his phone, per reporting by the Wall Street Journal.

Platner's wife, Amy Gertner, told his Senate campaign about the texts with several different women, insider sources told the WSJ. Gertner discovered the texts in spring 2025, and in August, she told an aide whom she considered a friend, while the campaign was doing opposition research on Platner, the WSJ reported.

Campaign aides told Gertner that they didn't expect the messages to be a problem as it was a "private matter," according to the WSJ, which mentioned that the couple had been undergoing counseling.

https://www.rawstory.com/graham-platner-texts-wsj-report/

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Bring back Governor Mills

[2naSalit]

2. If it makes...

Anyone feel better, she's still on the ballot for the primary. I'm interested in seeing how this primary pans out with the ranked choice option.

[sheshe2]

4. Interesting!

[eShirl]

9. no

[Celerity]

13. She's now a fairly unpopular centrist, and even IF she did win, would be 85yo in her 1st term, the oldest

ever first time elected US Senator in American history. That level of first time elected age matters in elections, regardless of what some people think.

Mills the centrist is pro filibuster, she is anti-decriminalisation for small personal use amounts of drugs, is anti red-flag laws for guns, she has vetoed collective bargaining rights (so is anti-union to a noticiable degree), vetoed wealth taxes, vetoed protections for renters, and vetoed some tribal sovereignty laws, etc. Those are unpopular stances in our Party.

Schumer and Gillibrand foolishly tossed all his eggs into a flawed basket with her (Schumer especially has a somewhat poor recruiting record over the years) and now we all have to hope Platner, despite all his flaws, can win the day and beat the vile Collins.

See this article that foretold her problems:

Strimling: Why Gov. Mills is losing support among Democrats

https://mainebeacon.com/strimling-why-gov-mills-is-losing-support-among-democrats/

November 13, 2025

Gov. Janet Mills has a popularity problem. And not just with some Republicans who have, shall we say, disliked her for years.

No, this problem is with her base. Here’s the story: In June, Gov. Janet Mills was soaring with 55% job approval (+11) including 90% among Democrats. Undoubtedly those numbers were buoyed by her standing up to Trump last winter when he tried to defund us for treating trans kids with dignity. But, in truth, her numbers have been in this range for basically her entire second term.

Not anymore. Today, her numbers have plummeted, almost exclusively because of how Democrats feel about her job performance.

In a late October survey by the same firm that conducted the June survey, Mills’ job approval dropped 12 points from June to 43% (a 23 point net negative swing). Among Democrats, her support cratered from 90% to 68%. All in less than four months.

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[-misanthroptimist]

3. A little help?

I'm not seeing a problem.

[mr715]

5. Look harder.

Much harder.

Harder than that.

No, no no harder.

Oh wait never mind.

[Cha]

6. How did that leak out? It seemed to

be between Planter's wife and the opposition search aides?

And, of course, Planter.

[sheshe2]

7. Campaign aides told Gertner that they didn't expect the messages to be a problem as it was a

"private matter,"

[Jilly_in_VA]

8. FFS, will you stop citing Raw Story?

It's like citing National Enquirer!

[FascismIsDeath]

10. No. It is not. And the story is already confirmed as true.

Don't be like Trump, yelling fake news everytime the news is inconvenient.

[sheshe2]

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[mr715]

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[Fiendish Thingy]

11. Is he in the Epstein files?

Didn’t think so.

Is his wife divorcing him?

Doesn’t look like it.

Is he an adjudicated rapist?

Nope.

So…I suppose we will have to wait a couple of news cycles to see if this turns into a somethingburger, or remains the nothingburger it is.