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Platner to meet Tuesday with Senate Democrats
Key takeaways
- A campaign official told News Nation s Jackie Koppell that the meeting is a longstanding one.
- Gertner notified her husband s campaign team about the messages last year.
- Being newly married is hard, said Gertner, who married Platner in 2023.
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A campaign official told News Nation s Jackie Koppell that the meeting is a longstanding one. It will take place after reports surfaced that Platner sent sexually explicit messages to multiple women after he married his wife, Amy Gertner.
Gertner notified her husband s campaign team about the messages last year. In a video message that Platner posted Saturday to the social platform X, Gertner criticized media coverage of the ordeal and praised her husband.
Graham and I have a great marriage. Being married is hard. Being newly married is hard, said Gertner, who married Platner in 2023.
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