Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner abruptly canceled his scheduled events in Washington, D.C., and New York City on Wednesday after reporters showed up at his family’s home and place of business in Maine, according to a NOTUS report confirmed by multiple outlets.
Journalists from the New York Post reportedly showed up at the home of Platner’s mother-in-law and the restaurant that his mother owns on Wednesday. This prompted Platner to cancel an event he had planned with the Democratic veterans group VoteVets on Wednesday and bypass the rest of his interstate trip, which included a stop in New York.
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Platner had been visiting the district in large part to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on the heels of the latest scandal to hit his Senate campaign. Over the weekend, news broke that Platner had previously sent sexually explicit messages to other women while married to his wife, Amy Gertner. Gertner had
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