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Shrai Popat, George Chidi and Chris Stein in Washington

Democrats backing Platner for Maine Senate despite news of sexting infidelity

Smiling man in long-sleeved T-shirt shakes hands with people.
Graham Platner at an event hosted by Bernie Sanders in Orono, Maine, on 24 May. Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/AP

Key Democratic leaders appeared to continue their support for the embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on Tuesday after meetings in Washington DC.

Platner is contending with yet another revelation – this time about sexually explicit texts with women outside of his marriage – threatening his campaign, which is at the center of his party’s hopes of regaining control of Congress.

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