Platner's wife told campaign about sexually explicit texts he sent other women

Politics Graham Platner's wife told campaign about sexually explicit texts he sent to other women By Aaron Navarro Aaron Navarro Digital Reporter Aaron Navarro is a CBS News digital reporter. He covered the 2024 elections and was previously an associate producer for the CBS News political unit in the 2021 and 2022 election cycles. Read Full Bio Aaron Navarro May 30, 2026 / 4:22 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The wife of Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner told his campaign in 2025 about sexual messages he had sent to other women.Amy Gertner, whom Platner has been married to since November 2023, told the campaign about the texts during an internal vetting process last year at the beginning of his campaign. Gertner's disclosure of the texts were first reported by the Wall Street Journal. In a statement from Gertner provided by the Platner campaign, she wrote that they have gone through counseling and that their marriage today "is stronger than ever before.""I know the man I married and the husband he has been to me on the best and the worst days of my life. That hasn't changed, and it won't," she added. She also notes how she shared "deeply personal details about my marriage" to an unnamed campaign staffer. "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 --- and I am deeply hurt by her betrayal and the invasion of our privacy," Gertner wrote.  Graham Platner, Democratic Senate candidate for Maine, speaks during a Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, Maine, on May 25, 2026.  Sophie Park / Bloomberg via Getty Images Platner is the presumptive Democratic nominee who will likely be taking on Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the November midterm elections after his main Democratic primary opponent, Maine Gov. Janet Mills, dropped out of the race in April. He has faced controversy over several problematic internet comments he made, a...