r/moderatepolitics • u/TheWyldMan • 3d ago

News Article Graham Platner’s Wife Flagged Sexually Explicit Texts to His Senate Campaign

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/graham-platners-wife-flagged-sexually-explicit-texts-to-his-senate-campaign-628ec832?mod=e2tw
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u/arup187 3d ago

A decade of Trump and both sides (though mostly Republicans) proving that they could care less about personal scandal or flaws in candidates as long as a candidate agrees with them might lead one to think this doesn’t matter in a blue state that went for Clinton, Biden and Harris with the later winning +7 but the Democrats are running a real risk. Collins has managed to survive this long as the sole New England Republican Senator left and Maine isn’t as blue as say Texas is red where Talarico is trying to pull off the improbable. We’ve seen as recently as 2022 where Trump’s endorsements of poor Senate candidates cost the GOP some pickup chances.

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u/keepinitrealzs 3d ago

That’s not totally true. The republican Alabama governor didn’t get elected 4 years ago? After his sexual improprieties surfaced.

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u/chloedeeeee77 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think on the spectrum of sexual improprieties “man in his 30s preying on teenage girls” is generally going to be more a lot more impactful than “married man texting other adult women”.

Interestingly, Roy Moore’s creepiness didn’t stop Republicans (including Trump) from endorsing him, the RNC from funding his campaign, and him getting 48% of the vote in the election. 

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u/NameIsNotBrad 2d ago

Who are you talking about?

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u/Rollen73 2d ago

Roy Moore. A good amount of Alabama republicans refused to support him but to be fair it’s cause he committed statutory rape (allegedly with the support of the parents). If Platner committed statutory rape I’m almost positive he would be forced to drop out.

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u/NameIsNotBrad 2d ago

Doug Jones beat out Roy Moore for senate in 2017. That’s why I was trying to figure out who you were talking about. It was the wrong office and year. Governor Meemaw has been around awhile.

Moore was known to creep on younger girls. And he barely lost.

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u/Rollen73 2d ago

Ohhhh I misread the post my bad. I saw Alabama republican sex pest and got my wires crossed and assumed it was Roy Moore lol.

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u/neuronexmachina 2d ago

There was also the representative who had an affair with a (married) staffer, with the staffer later committing suicide by self-immolation. He resigned on the same day as Swalwell.

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u/TheWyldMan 2d ago

and Paxton is in tight race only because of his scandals.

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u/dr_sloan 2d ago edited 2d ago

Paxton’s scandals aren’t just that he cheats on his wife. He’s been repeatedly caught accepting bribes to drop or refocus investigations by his office

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u/nycbetches 2d ago

Not ONLY because of his scandals (which are much more numerous and have more bearing on his conduct in office than Platner’s). People also do not like the actions he’s taken as AG in Texas. Even many Republicans think he is too far-right. Polling supports this.

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u/ThatPeskyPangolin 2d ago

I mean, this makes it sound like his scandals are all personal, rather than the legitimate corruption issues he has engaged in.

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u/The-Insolent-Sage 2d ago

And the fact that Paxton is far right...