{"id":212257,"date":"2026-05-31T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/graham-platner-sent-explicit-texts-to-other-women-during-marriage-wife-confirms-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:21:09","slug":"graham-platner-sent-explicit-texts-to-other-women-during-marriage-wife-confirms-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/graham-platner-sent-explicit-texts-to-other-women-during-marriage-wife-confirms-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Platner sent explicit texts to other women during marriage, wife confirms – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy Gertner, wife of Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, says she is \u2018hurt\u2019 ex-political director exposed texts
Senate hopeful Graham Platner of Maine exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women during his marriage, according to information his wife shared with his campaign last year, the New York Times<\/a> and the Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported.
Platner, an oyster farmer and former US marine, is Maine\u2019s presumptive Democratic nominee for the US Senate after his main competitor, Janet Mills, suspended her campaign last month<\/a>. He\u2019s vying to unseat five-term Republican senator<\/a> Susan Collins in a campaign that\u2019s captured viral progressive attention<\/a>, while also facing controversy related to dredged-up racist, sexist and homophobic online posts \u2013 and a now-covered-up tattoo<\/a> of a Totenkopf, widely recognized as a Nazi symbol.
After Platner launched his campaign last August before a Labor Day rally with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, his team reportedly began opposition research on their candidate to uncover any information that could be revealed during his bid for Senate. At that time, his wife, Amy Gertner, shared with the campaign\u2019s then political director, Genevieve McDonald, that she had found sexually explicit messages her husband had sent other women on his phone in the spring of 2025. She and Platner had begun marriage counseling, and the campaign\u2019s aides ultimately decided the messages were a private matter.
In a statement<\/a> released by Platner\u2019s campaign, Gertner said she was \u201cdeeply hurt\u201d by the news that McDonald had shared details of Platner\u2019s text messages with reporters.
\u201cI confided deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend,\u201d she said. \u201cI trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives \u2013 the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind.\u201d
\u201cWe did the hard work that marriage requires. We went to counseling. We were honest with each other in ways that weren\u2019t easy,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd we came through it, not in spite of how much we\u2019ve been through, but because of how much we love each other and the life we\u2019ve built. Our marriage today is stronger than ever before.\u201d
\u201cI know who Graham is. I know the man I married and the husband he has been to me on the best and the worst days of my life. That hasn\u2019t changed, and it won\u2019t,\u201d Gertner said.
\u201cThe United States Senate is not a training ground for redemption. It is a place for proven leaders with moral clarity and integrity,\u201d McDonald told the New York Times. McDonald was one of three campaign officials who resigned after details of Platner\u2019s tattoo and controversial social media posts were revealed in October.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Platner has an active account on Kik, a private messaging platform sometimes used for sexting. The account is listed under the username phustle0331 and includes a profile picture taken in mirror that shows a shirtless man with a towel wrapped around his waist with tattoos that seem to match those on Platner\u2019s arms.
Platner told the New Yorker<\/a> last year that he initially met Gertner, an art teacher, through friends before they matched on Bumble, a dating app.<\/p>\n

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