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/Teganfff Centrist Democrat 2d ago

Example 7,439 of why Democrats/people on the left need to stop purity testing and infighting.

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u/sgtabn173 Ask me about my TDS 2d ago

I’m beginning to really suspect the purity tests and infighting are oftentimes instigated by people outside the party. Dude has the support of dems in Maine, far as I can tell. So where is the infighting originating? Who benefits from the dems purity tests?

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u/halfar 2d ago

The story was leaked by his former campaign manager, Genevieve McDonald, who left his campaign when Mills announced her run, because she's a big supporter of Mills, and has been a very loud and active voice against Platner ever since.

So in this case, it's very explicitly coming from a moderate democrat trying to sink another democrat's campaign.

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u/TheWyldMan 2d ago

Weird way to say she quit after Gus Reddit account was discovered and she said she couldn’t represent him after his comments

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u/TheWyldMan 2d ago

he had already won the primary.

Not yet

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