{"id":566,"date":"2026-06-01T23:42:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:42:51","slug":"bernie-sanders-defends-graham-platner-after-reports-of-sexually-explicit-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders defends Graham Platner after reports of sexually explicit text messages"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is defending Senate candidate Graham Platner following news reports that the presumptive Democratic nominee in Maine exchanged sexually explicit texts with women at the beginning of his marriage.<\/p>

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Sanders, who has endorsed Platner in his bid to unseat GOP Sen. Susan Collins, said that working families face bigger issues than Platner\u2019s marriage.<\/p>

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\u201cWe got a housing crisis. People can\u2019t afford healthcare, they can\u2019t afford groceries, they can\u2019t afford to fill up their gas tanks. And I think it\u2019s important for us to focus on the issues facing working families a little bit more than Graham Platner\u2019s marriage,\u201d Sanders told reporters on Capitol Hill.<\/p>

\u201cI wish their marriage the very best. But right now, I think we should be focusing on the crises facing the working class and electing people of the guts to stand up to the oligarchs who control our country,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>

He also said that Platner\u2019s wife, whom he called a \u201cvery lovely woman\u201d he\u2019s had \u201cthe opportunity to meet,\u201d was standing by him.<\/p>

Platner\u2019s wife, Amy Gertner, said in a video that Platner\u2019s campaign released over the weekend that she was \u201creally angry\u201d about the reports of the text messages, and that she found it \u201cshameful\u201d that there were people spreading \u201cgossip\u201d instead of discussing the issues Platner is running on.<\/p>

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The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that Gertner told Platner\u2019s campaign about the sexually explicit texts last year at the beginning of his Senate bid, while discussing potential opposition research on him. The Times cited a former senior official in Platner\u2019s campaign, and the Journal cited people familiar with the matter.<\/p>

Platner\u2019s campaign confirmed he sent multiple women sexually explicit texts at the beginning of his marriage.<\/p>

\u201cAmy and I went through something hard \u2014 because of me,\u201d Platner said in a statement. \u201cWe did the work, and I\u2019m grateful for her every hour of every day. I\u2019ve learned throughout this campaign that people don\u2019t care about gossip or headlines, they care that you\u2019re fighting for their hospitals, their paycheck, their kids. This campaign is about the ideas that will move Maine forward and past a broken politics of the past. Our opponents want politics to be empty of content and empty of actual change \u2014 and beating that is exactly what our movement is about.\u201d<\/p>

Gertner said in her video on Saturday that she and Platner have a \u201cgreat marriage\u201d and that counseling has helped.<\/p>

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