TIME TO SEE GRAHAM PLATNER’S SEXTS. To no one’s surprise and some Democratic strategists’ dismay, Graham Platner ran away with the Democratic nomination for senator from Maine. Now, barring some unforeseen development, the whole Platner drama that nobody knew about not that long ago — the Nazi tattoo, the Reddit posts, the sexting — will be part of the Maine Senate race until the general election on Nov. 3.Of those, the sexting part is most urgent, because we know the least about it of anything else. Now, with Platner, the official Democratic candidate for Senate, it’s time to know more.At the moment, we don’t know much more than was reported in the initial stories published May 30. On that day, first the Wall Street Journal and then the New York Times reported that shortly after Platner announced his candidacy on Aug. 19, 2025, his wife Amy Gertner “informed the campaign about a potential political problem she had previously discovered on [Platner’s] phone: sexually explicit texts with several women, according to people familiar with the matter.”
The Wall Street Journal reported that Platner’s campaign aides “decided the texts were a private matter that was being handled by the couple in marriage counseling.” And that was the end of that, as far as the campaign was concerned.
