Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner attacked Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) on social media Saturday night after the Pennsylvania lawmaker said he’d wear a suit “every day” if Platner releases the messages he has allegedly sent to women while married to his wife.
Fetterman said on Fox News’s “Saturday in America” he has not heard from the embattled candidate about the proposed deal, adding that Platner had previously expressed anger over Fetterman’s well-known refusal to wear a suit.
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“John Fetterman seems to genuinely think that the reason no one likes him is because he refuses to wear a suit,” Platner said in a post on X. “It’s not the hoodie, dude. It’s because you’ve become a stooge for AIPAC and the Republican party.”
Platner’s direct response to Fetterman comes one day after he held a get-out-the-vote rally in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he categorized the escalating controversies surrounding his candidacy as “politically motivated” and “false.”
“When hurtful things I said on the internet a decade ago came out into the public, as I shared my personal journey through PTSD and darkness of recovery and accountability and growth, Maine had my back,” he said to a crowd of supporters. “Now, as every single piece of that past and journey gets dug up, litigated, and weaponized, you have my back.”
The New York Times released a report during the week detailing “unsettling behavior” experienced by three women who dated Platner, while reports surfaced last weekend that Platner had previously sent sexually explicit texts to other women while married to his wife.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who has emerged as a key defender of the Senate hopeful, said at the rally that “no one should make excuses for his past relationships, some of which were toxic and volatile, and no one on our side should attack the women who came forward… because Democrats believe in respecting the equality and the dignity of women, and we always will.”
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Platner is the current presumptive Democratic nominee to run against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Gov. Janet Mills suspended her campaign in April but has toyed with the idea of getting back into the race ahead of Tuesday’s primary. She will be on the ballot.
Recent polling shows evidence that Platner’s controversies are starting to harm his public image. The percentage of people who expressed an unfavorable view of him has almost doubled since January.
