The presumptive Maine Democrat U.S. Senate nominee is suggesting potential embarrassing pictures or texts may still come out of, from and about his past.
Graham Platner appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show Wednesday after his big primary win the day before to address potential additional fallout.
Platner’s overwhelming 50-point victory over Gov. Janet Mills came in the aftermath of a campaign during which he was deluged almost daily with revelations about past social-media posts and texts shining light on the seedier side of his now-public life.
The latest discovery was the existence of sex-related messages he sent on the hook-up Kik app.
The question on many Mainers’ minds now is whether further evidence will come out about his past that could potentially damage his candidacy as he takes on five-term GOP Sen. Susan Collins in the fall.
The question was also on the mind of Democrat Mika Brzezinski, a “Morning Joe” host who is married to co-host RINO Joe Scarborough.
“How many concerning pictures and/or text messages are in the possession of other people that could be used against you?” Brzezinski asked Platner.
“And I’d like to know if there are pictures – concerning pictures,” she added.
Rather than immediately addressing the elephant in the room, Platner changed the subject – to his wife.
“I would just say that the nature of Amy’s and my relationship has been blown totally out of proportion,” he replied. “Early in our marriage we had some struggles and we worked through them because that’s what you do when you’re in love with somebody. And it made our marriage much stronger.”
Still he hadn’t addressed the big question.
He bought more time by going on with a story about his younger years.
“I was single for the majority of my adult life,” Platner said. “I was in my 20s and 30s and I dated. In the modern age that’s, that’s what happens – you date people and you use dating apps and you do all this stuff and frankly that all happened before I got married.
“It happened long before I decided to run for the United States Senate.
“I can just tell you, there is nothing out there that is going to run counter to all the stories that I’ve talked about openly during this entire campaign.”
There was the non-denial that there could be more stuff coming out, which Platner described as things that would just support the narrative that he claims is false.
“The whole ‘what else is coming’ – it’s essentially been the same thing the whole time, which is, I’ve been out, very open, about the fact that I’ve struggled, very open about the fact that I had a long list of failed relationships,” he said.
“You date people and you use dating apps and that happened long before I decided to run for the U.S. Senate.”
“The question on many Mainers’ minds now is whether further evidence will come out about his past” I do not need “further evidence about his past” I am a U S Navy Vet of the ‘Nam era and I would not vote for this strange person because of what I already know about him. When he mustered out of the service, the military shrinks judged that he was 100 % mentally disabled and could never hold down job. Thus they gave him, at tax payers’ expense, a life long 100% mental disability pension of $57,600. a year. Maine does not need a 100% mentally disabled man as our Senator for six years.