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With just a week to go before Maine's Senate primary, Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is
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facing his latest controversy. Multiple outlets reported over the weekend that Platner's wife told a campaign aid last
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year that her husband sent sexually explicit texts to several women outside of the marriage. I think voters don't
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care about this. I'm not so sure in the era of Trump this matters at all. So,
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what do you think? >> Every election is a choice, not a marriage proposal. We're not hiring a
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priest. We're hiring a senator. Do you want to make sure that women's rights
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aren't continued to be rolled back? Do you want a more responsible economic policy? Do you want different um
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approaches to labor that raise the wages of nurses and students? Do you want something regarding fiscal sanity? Do
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you want to stop have a check against the unfettered unprecedented corruption? But we're going to talk about [ __ ]
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tattoos and sexing. The obsession with personal purity has become a luxury belief. And folks, if your house is on
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fire, you don't ask whether the firefighter has problematic DMs. Stop the purity tests. Now, having said that,
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>> right, >> the comm's person for the Platiner campaign >> should be fired.
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>> The response should be the following. I am an imperfect man. I have demonstrated
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terrible judgment on several occasions in my marriage and I have a great marriage. More than anything, I want to
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call the Platner campaign and say, "Own it." >> I think the point they were trying to
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make is, shouldn't we be focusing on the important issues? And that's all they
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needed to say. We get why people might stare at this. It feels like a traffic accident, and it kind of is, but let's
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focus on the real matters.