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Democrats rally behind Maine candidate Graham Platner despite sexting scandal

Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, showed up on Capitol Hill Tuesday to meet with party leaders, not to answer questions about reports that he sent sexually explicit text messages to multiple women early in his marriage, but to collect handshakes and reassurances that the party still has his back. He got both.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met with Platner and afterward told reporters he stands by his endorsement. He did not, however, answer questions about whether the revelations concern him or whether he found Platner's explanations satisfactory. NBC News reported that Schumer simply dodged those inquiries and repeated his campaign line.

The pattern tells you everything. Reports emerged over the weekend that Platner's own wife privately alerted a campaign official that her husband had sent sexually explicit texts to other women. Not one Democratic senator has pulled support. And the candidate himself left the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee headquarters, after spending more than ninety minutes inside, without saying a single word to reporters shouting questions at him.

Schumer kept it short and vague when pressed by the Capitol Hill press corps.

"I endorsed Graham Platner. We're going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate."

That was the full extent of his public commentary on a scandal that, in any other cycle and involving any other party, would have triggered wall-to-wall cable coverage and editorial demands for accountability.

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