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.