Senate candidate Graham Platner sent explicit texts to multiple women while married, wife says: report

Platner's campaign confirmed the text exchanges to Politico following a report from the Wall Street Journal that claimed his wife, Amy Gertner, told a campaign aide about the texts after he launched his senate bid as they began looking into potential political liabilities.

Gertner said in a statement to the Journal: "I confided deeply personal details about my marriage to someone I considered a friend. In the months since, I have had to watch as she spread malicious gossip to anyone who would take her call. I trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives - the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind - and I am deeply hurt by her betrayal and the invasion of our privacy."

She added that she and her husband: "Did the hard work that marriage requires. We went to counseling. We were honest with each other in ways that weren't easy. And we came through it, not in spite of how much we've been through, but because of how much we love each other and the life we've built. Our marriage today is stronger than ever before."

Gertner added, "I know who Graham is. I know the man I married and the husband he has been to me on the best and the worst days of my life. That hasn't changed, and it won't."

Fox News Digital has reached out to Platner's campaign for comment.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., reiterated his support for Platner on Saturday.

"I believe that will be the conclusion of Maine voters," she previously told Fox News Digital. "But, obviously, I don't take anything for granted."