Anthony Zurcher

And then you drive out east, which is just where the state stretches on and you get out about a three hour drive from Portland.

That's where I was last night.

in blue hill maine which is uh graham platner's birthplace it's a tiny little town on the coast and and i think it uh platner picked that as the site of his election night watch party it's a a big ymca gymnasium there because he wanted to emphasize the fact that he comes from rural maine in fact that's what he he says time and time again he's a product of maine

a product of rural Maine, and these are the people that he wants to give a voice to, not just the blue-haired hipsters in Portland.

Yeah, just in the last week and a half or so, there's been a one-two punch from major media outlets.

Punch one was a Wall Street Journal report where we heard revelations that Plattner had been sending text messages after he married Amy, his wife, to a woman over

a dating app, and the wife actually found out about these, and she told the campaign about it, and the campaign, a campaign advisor who has since had a falling out with Platner, took those stories to the Wall Street Journal, and they published them.

So it was more recent, certainly, than some of these Reddit posts that we've talked about, and certainly more recent than the Nazi tattoos.

So it really

re-aired some of these concerns about Platner and his personal behavior.

That was the Wall Street Journal.

So that was punch number one.

Punch number two came from the New York Times.

And that was the New York Times went back and talked to a bunch of Platner's ex-girlfriends in the 2000 teens and thereabouts, including one who is now a Republican operative, but it was a girlfriend of

of his at the time in Washington, D.C., that said that he was sometimes threatening towards her, that he sometimes grabbed her by the shoulders, that he one time pulled her out of the car by her wrist enough that it bruised her.

She felt intimidated and threatened.

Other of his exes said that he was sometimes a little problematic, sometimes a little sketchy, and not always the best boyfriend and someone who

has had a problem with alcohol and could be verbally intimidating.

So that was what came out.

And that put him on MSNOW, the liberal network here in the U.S., trying to explain away all of this and saying that that's not who he is now and that he has changed.