Cory Booker has ‘concerns’ with Graham Platner’s Senate bid after leaked texts

Cory Booker gives remarks at the Center for American Progress Ideas conference at the Mayflower hotel in Washington DC on 19 May. Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/Reuters

A high-profile Democrat has expressed concerns with party candidate Graham Platner’s Maine US Senate campaign amid revelations that Platner reportedly sent a number of sexually explicit messages to other women while married.

“Yes, I have concerns,” Cory Booker, the US senator from New Jersey, said on Sunday on ABC’s This Week when host Jonathan Karl asked about the Platner revelations. “That guy has questions to answer – and that’s what campaigns are for.”