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

The Guardian · May 31, 2026, 6:17 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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US senator says Platner, whose wife says he sent sexually explicit messages to other women, has ‘questions to answer’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 Sunday on ABC’s This Week when host Jonathan Karl when asked about the Platner revelations. “That guy has questions to answer – and that’s what campaigns are for.” Continue reading...

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