Embattled Democratic candidate Graham Platner dispatched his wife to do damage control over the discovery that the Senate hopeful exchanged sexually explicit text messages with as many as a dozen women and posed shirtless on a platform notorious for enabling sexual predators.
His wife, Amy Gertner, quickly flagged the messages days after Platner launched his Senate bid in August 2025. The campaign, however, chose not to disclose them publicly, characterizing the issue as a personal matter between the couple, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/popular-dem-senate-candidate-caught-by-wife-exchanging-raunchy-texts-with-women?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Graham+Platner+Caught+By+Wife+Exchanging+Raunchy+Texts+With+Women">The Daily Wire previously reported</a>.
The sexually explicit messages mark the latest controversy to engulf the oyster farmer’s campaign, which has already faced intense scrutiny over his Nazi tattoo, his mocking of a wounded American soldier, and derogatory social media posts about women.
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Over the weekend, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-graham-platner-has-active-profile-on-predators-paradise-messaging-app?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=SEE+IT%3A+Graham+Platner+Has+Active+Profile+On+%E2%80%98Predator%E2%80%99s+Paradise%E2%80%99+Messaging+App">The Daily Wire exclusively revealed</a> that Platner maintains an active account on a platform notorious for attracting sexual predators and exploiting children. Platner is a registered user on Kik, a Daily Wire review found. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation considers the anonymous messaging app a “predator’s paradise.&#8221; 
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The Platner campaign appeared to dispatch Gertner to diffuse the crisis, painting a bumpy picture of the couple&#8217;s marriage and launching profanity-laced attacks against media outlets. 
&#8220;I&#8217;m walking up and down my road right now, and this is like my 20th take. It&#8217;s very hard to do, but I just really wanted to make sure that everyone knows that Graham and I have a great marriage,&#8221; Gertner said in a nearly five-minute walking video. &#8220;Being married is hard. Being newly married is hard. Being newly married and going through infertility is hard. Being newly married, going through infertility, and Senate campaign is hard.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know if I have the right words to describe what we&#8217;ve been going through,&#8221; she added. 
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Gertner then attempted to chalk up her husband&#8217;s unfaithfulness to the stress he faced in the U.S. military. 
&#8220;I knew the man that I married had been through an immense amount of violent, active combat, and he&#8217;s been in therapy for years. I just &#8230; I admire the f*ck out of him. So, when there are news articles about our marriage, it&#8217;s just extra sh*tty,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s shameful behavior to spend time, energy, and resources on negative ads and negative stories on Graham when all he&#8217;s trying to do is improve the lives of people who work for a living, and that&#8217;s it.&#8221; 
<a href="https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/2060919145437487388?s=20">One X user said</a>, &#8220;This is a hostage video. Is she blinking in Morse code?&#8221;
&#8220;Your presence on a site selling all manner of an extreme sexual perversion, including illegal material involving children, is absolutely relevant for voters to weigh,&#8221; Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham <a href="https://x.com/megbasham/status/2060895066860752950?s=20">said</a>. 
Platner is expected to cruise to victory in Maine’s Democratic primary on June 9 after his top rival, Governor Janet Mills, suspended her campaign. <a href="https://kalshi.com/markets/senateme/maine-senate-race/senateme-26">Prediction markets</a> still favor Platner in November’s general election against Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), though those odds could flip as Republicans dump more opposition research. 
&#8220;The problem is his judgment, which he clearly has been lacking in as an adult. It&#8217;s one thing to have foolish, youthful indiscretions, but I&#8217;m sorry, you cannot get past. It is not a Nazi-style tattoo. It is the tattoo of concentration camp guards. It is the very worst tattoo you can get if you are getting anything Nazi, and that&#8217;s a pretty high bar there,&#8221; MS NOW commentator Elise Jordan said. 
&#8220;So this has been a slow-motion train wreck ever since that tattoo and knowledge of it hit the world, and it&#8217;s only gonna get worse. These texts: There are multiple women. Are all those women going to keep their mouth shut from now until Election Day?&#8221; 
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MS NOW&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/Elise_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Elise_Jordan</a> blasts Maine Democrat Graham Platner:
&#8220;The problem is his judgment, which he clearly has been lacking in as an adult. It&#8217;s one thing to have foolish, youthful indiscretions, but I&#8217;m sorry, you cannot get past. It is not a Nazi-style tattoo. It is the… <a href="https://t.co/nESAS6OYbl">pic.twitter.com/nESAS6OYbl</a>
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) <a href="https://x.com/Bobby_LaVallley/status/2061449104119533585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2026</a></blockquote>

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