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Don't Forget: Key Platner Staffer Talked About His Penis in Book for 10-Year-Old Boys, Said He Wanted Them to See Images of It

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Don't Forget: Key Platner Staffer Talked About His Penis in Book for 10-Year-Old Boys, Said He Wanted Them to See Images of It

The whole candidacy of Graham Platner to unseat GOP Sen. Susan Collins, one of the few Republican members of the upper chamber from a reliably blue state, was based upon a mortal fallacy: Nothing worse was going to come out about him.

I mean, sure, Platner had a Nazi tattoo. He apparently had a history of disgusting social media remarks. He appeared on a Holocaust denier’s podcast and called himself a massive fan. That was what they came up with before he really had an opponent. (While Gov. Janet Mills was formidable at the ballot box before she withdrew, it was clear her heart wasn’t in it.)

Well, guess what? Things have, quite unsurprisingly, gotten worse. On Saturday, The Wall Street Journal came out with a story that Platner’s wife had alerted his campaign about sexually explicit texts exchanged with a number of women, in order “to make sure they didn’t pose a risk to her husband’s nascent campaign.”

Somehow, worse has happened since then, but it’s worth pausing on the sexting scandal for a bit — because Democrats, in........

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