Platner’s Wife Blasts Reporting Over His Alleged Sexting—While Cory Booker Has ‘Concerns’

BreakingBusinessPlatner’s Wife Blasts Reporting Over His Alleged Sexting—While Cory Booker Has ‘Concerns’ByTy Roush,Forbes Staff. Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City.Follow AuthorMay 31, 2026, 04:52pm EDTToplineSen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said on Sunday that Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, has “questions to answer” following reports that Platner’s wife flagged to his campaign sexually explicit texts Platner sent to other women. Platner’s wife called reports of the sexually explicit texts “shameful.”Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reservedKey Facts“I have concerns,” Booker told ABC News on Sunday when asked if Platner could jeopardize Democrats’ control of the Senate, adding, “That guy has questions to answer. That’s what campaigns are for.”Booker’s comments come after the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times reported that Amy Gertner, who married Platner in 2023, told Platner’s Senate campaign last year about sexually explicit texts he sent to several women, to ensure they didn’t impact his campaign.Former Maine state legislator Genevieve McDonald, who also served as the Platner campaign’s political director before leaving in October, told the Times that Gertner reached out to her before a rally with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., indicating Platner exchanged texts with as many as a dozen women.McDonald told the Times the Senate is “not a training ground for redemption,” and instead a “place for proven leaders with moral clarity and integrity.”Platner’s campaign released a video from Gertner on Saturday, in which Gertner said she was “really angry, disappointed” that her disclosure was made public and that she “[finds] it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on.” if (!window.cnxel) { window.cnxel = {}; window.cnxel.cmd = []; var iframe = document.createElement('iframe...