{"id":74253,"date":"2026-05-31T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/cory-booker-has-concerns-with-graham-platners-senate-bid-after-leaked-texts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:00:22","slug":"cory-booker-has-concerns-with-graham-platners-senate-bid-after-leaked-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/cory-booker-has-concerns-with-graham-platners-senate-bid-after-leaked-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Booker has \u2018concerns\u2019 with Graham Platner\u2019s Senate bid after leaked texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US senator says Platner, whose wife says he sent sexually explicit messages to other women, has \u2018questions to answer\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrat<\/a> has expressed concerns with party candidate Graham Platner\u2019s Maine US Senate campaign amid revelations that Platner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/30\/graham-platner-explicit-texts-senate-maine\">reportedly sent<\/a> a number of sexually explicit messages to other women while married.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I have concerns,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/cory-booker\">Cory Booker<\/a>, the US senator from New Jersey, said Sunday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/i-have-concerns-cory-booker-waffles-on-graham-platner-after-explosive-new-revelations\/\">ABC\u2019s This Week<\/a><em> <\/em>when host Jonathan Karl when asked about the Platner revelations. <strong>\u201c<\/strong>That guy has questions to answer \u2013 and that\u2019s what campaigns are for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/31\/cory-booker-graham-platner-senate-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US senator says Platner, whose wife says he sent sexually explicit messages to other women, has \u2018questions to answer\u2019 A high-profile Democrat has expressed concerns with party candidate Graham Platner\u2019s Maine US Senate campaign amid revelations that Platner reportedly sent a number of sexually explicit messages to other women while married. \u201cYes, I have concerns,\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"Cory Booker has \u2018concerns\u2019 with Graham Platner\u2019s Senate bid after leaked texts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/cory-booker-has-concerns-with-graham-platners-senate-bid-after-leaked-texts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cory Booker has \u2018concerns\u2019 with Graham Platner\u2019s Senate bid after leaked texts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}