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Evidence continues to pour in that Graham Platner, the likely Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, is a man of deplorable character.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Platner had an active account—with a shirtless profile photo—on the private messaging app Kik and that he was sending sexually explicit texts to at least six women after he married his wife three short years ago.