While most Democrats have hesitated to criticize Maine's leading Democratic candidate for Senate, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman lambasted him on June 2.

The Democrat running for Senate in Maine is confronting newly unearthed sexually explicit texts he sent at the start of his marriage.

Other progressive members of Congress who endorsed Platner, the leading Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Maine, are also coming to his defense.

The rebuke comes as Senate Democrats keep the progressive insurgent candidate at arm’s length ahead of his Maine primary next week.