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.

Several Senate Democrats declined to address the embattled candidate and his quest for one of the most competitive seats that could determine Senate control.

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