Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says he is standing by Graham Platner in the wake of media reports that the Maine Senate candidate previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he is standing by Graham Platner in the wake of media reports that the Maine Senate candidate previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women while he was married.

Platner, a Democrat, posted a video over the weekend taken by his wife, Amy Gertner, who reportedly told his campaign of the text messages last year. In the video, Gertner decried coverage of the issue as “gossip” and said “being married is hard.”

Sanders, a critical early backer of Platner, told The Associated Press on Monday that he still supports the oyster farmer and combat veteran, who hopes to unseat veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
    538·
    22 hours ago

    Sanders lost the plot, and I love him but time for him to retire. Holy shit between this and wanting us to hold half the bag on AI I can’t support any of that.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      4·
      14 hours ago

      I was crushed when he said the word genocide “made him queasy”. He did change his tune and explicitly acknowledge it was genocide in Sep 2025. So. largely fixed.

      But to initially miss on such a morally obvious question was unusual in the arc of his lifetime of achievements. No one is perfect or free of bias, I suppose.