Welcome to Washington Secrets, your insider guide to the latest from the political coal face. Today, we look at how Graham Platner is dealing with his latest scandal (he has plenty of practice) and the fallout from a different kind of scandal in London…Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate in Maine’s Senate race, has a well-honed crisis communications strategy. And so he should.He has effectively won the nomination after seeing off scandals that included old Reddit posts in which he played down rape and insulted black people, as well as the awkward business of a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest.
So when The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal revealed Saturday how his own wife had warned his campaign that he had swapped sexual messages with multiple women, his team was ready to swing into action.
They circled the wagons, refused to apologize, and then went on the attack.
Amy Gertner, Platner’s wife, claimed that she had been betrayed by a former campaign staffer and was “deeply hurt” at the “invasion of our privacy.”
“I confided deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend,” she said. “I trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives — the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind.”
