{"id":74277,"date":"2026-06-01T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/controversy-swirls-around-maine-senate-candidates-explicit-texts\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:57:12","slug":"controversy-swirls-around-maine-senate-candidates-explicit-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/controversy-swirls-around-maine-senate-candidates-explicit-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy Swirls Around Maine Senate Candidate\u2019s Explicit Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh controversy is swirling around Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner after his sexually explicit texts to multiple women were revealed. On Saturday, his wife posted a video defending her husband. Graham is trying to unseat long-time Republican incumbent senator Susan Collins in what\u2019s expected to be a critical battle for control of the United States Senate. NBC\u2019s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh controversy is swirling around Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner after his sexually explicit texts to multiple women were revealed. On Saturday, his wife posted a video defending her husband. Graham is trying to unseat long-time Republican incumbent senator Susan Collins in what\u2019s expected to be a critical battle for control of the United &#8230; <a title=\"Controversy Swirls Around Maine Senate Candidate\u2019s Explicit Texts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/controversy-swirls-around-maine-senate-candidates-explicit-texts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Controversy Swirls Around Maine Senate Candidate\u2019s Explicit 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-74277","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\/74277","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=74277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}