- Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, posted a video calling the reporting “gossip,” saying “no marriage is perfect” and that the couple are working with counselors.
- The Wall Street Journal reported Gertner told the campaign in August she’d found sexually explicit texts on Platner’s phone from earlier in their marriage.
- Platner, an oyster farmer and combat veteran, has survived prior controversies (a tattoo tied to a Nazi symbol and problematic Reddit posts) and is the presumptive Democratic nominee after Gov. Janet Mills withdrew.
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