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/KarlsReddit 3d ago

How old will Collins be in 6 years? Good Lord the Democrats can't get out of their own way

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u/dragonmp93 3d ago

Eh, Republicans always cared more about if a Politician cheated on their spouse than the Democrats.

And Republicans don't care anymore if Trump is anything to go by.

So you can guess how much Democrats care about this.

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u/TheWyldMan 2d ago

Yes, on its own this isn't enough to sink a campaign.

But this isn't the only controversy Platner is dealing with.

He's been able to brush aside some controversies by saying that he's aged or matured or didn't have knowledge of stuff.

But this happened only a couple of years ago. It sinks his "I've matured" argument and it shows a self-serving willingness to lie to even his own wife. How can we trust he didn't know his tattoo wasn't a Nazi tattoo when he's now a known liar? How can we see he's matured when he was doing this just a couple of years ago?

We've already seen people uncover facebook group post about him being a suspected cheater, how close are we to text (or photos) getting leaked?

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u/GroundbreakingPage41 1d ago

I’m sorry the bar has dropped enough for voters not to care. If the president can be a serial cheater then so can a Democrat.