2026年6月5日 / 美国东部时间下午4:08 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
本周内第二次，民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在即将胜券在握的缅因州初选数日前再度陷入重大争议。
周四，《纽约时报》报道了普拉特纳对其约会过的女性做出“令人不安”行为的指控，其中一项指控称他存在肢体虐待行为，普拉特纳对此予以否认。
据《纽约时报》报道，普拉特纳当时的女友林赛·法菲尔德表示，十年前两人交往期间，他“经常抓住她的肩膀——有时力道大到会留下淤青”。某次争吵中，他“将她的手臂扭到身后，把她推进卧室并反锁房门”。
《纽约时报》报道发布后，普拉特纳在接受MS Now采访时否认了法菲尔德的指控。他说：“这篇报道中的部分指控，我想明确表明，完全不是事实。”
普拉特纳是政坛新人，同时也是一名牡蛎养殖户。他还坚称，自己2007年在海军服役期间醉酒时纹的胸前纹身，是广为人知的纳粹符号一事，他当时并不知情。之后他已经将该纹身遮盖。但法菲尔德告诉《纽约时报》，普拉特纳当时就知道该纹身的含义，甚至还拿它开过玩笑。
“任何涉及肢体暴力的指控，任何声称我知道自己纹身含义的说法，都是出于政治动机的人的说辞，”普拉特纳在采访中说道。
民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳于2026年5月20日在缅因州波特兰的一场市政厅活动上发言。乔·雷德莱 / 盖蒂图片社
在发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一份声明中，普拉特纳表示：“在整个竞选过程中，我一直坦诚提及我人生中一段非常黑暗的时期：当时我饱受未确诊的创伤后应激障碍困扰，时常借酒消愁，远不是一个合格的男友。我对此承担全部责任，只恨当时没能做得更好。任何超出这一范围的描述都是虚假的，我认为这是出于政治动机。我不为当时的自己感到骄傲，但我为之后所做的工作，以及我们在缅因州建立的运动感到自豪。”
据公开的个人简介显示，法菲尔德是居住在弗吉尼亚州的保守派人士，曾为共和党竞选活动和保守派智库传统基金会工作。她表示自己与普拉特纳在2013年至2015年间交往，并告诉《纽约时报》，自短暂为妮基·黑利2024年总统竞选工作以来，她从未接受过任何政治竞选活动或机构的报酬。
普拉特纳还承认，2023年与妻子艾米·格特纳结婚后不久，他曾向其他女性发送过露骨的色情短信。格特纳在竞选团队启动后不久就向团队披露了这些短信的存在。周四，普拉特纳告诉MS Now：“在我们婚姻初期，我犯了错误，艾米也对我进行了问责。我们共同克服了这些问题。”
缅因州参议院竞选是全美最受关注的竞选之一——它属于为数不多的摇摆选区之一，将决定中期选举后参议院的控制权归属。本周早些时候普拉特纳在华盛顿特区拜访民主党参议员时，遭到了部分议员的审视。佛蒙特州参议员彼得·韦尔奇告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，在会面期间，他告诉普拉特纳“作为候选人，他有义务回应缅因州民众提出的合理问题，无论是个人层面还是政治层面的”。
也有人站在普拉特纳一边。加利福尼亚州众议员罗·卡纳计划于周五晚上在缅因州的一场动员投票集会上为该候选人助选。卡纳在一份声明中表示：“《纽约时报》报道中描述的行为是错误且有害的。格雷厄姆已经承认了这一点并寻求救赎。缅因州民众需要一位能够站出来对抗亿万富翁阶层、反对种族灭绝、为工人阶级发声的参议员。”
佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯是最早背书普拉特纳的人之一，尽管此前民主党领袖查克·舒默在初选中支持了州长珍妮特·米尔斯。“我能告诉大家的是，美国最富有的人如今已经在缅因州这样的小州预留了近1亿美元的电视广告预算。那么，亿万富翁们在担心什么？他们为什么要花这么多钱试图击败这个人？答案是，他将对抗寡头政治，”桑德斯在周二于华盛顿特区与普拉特纳会面之前对记者表示。
米尔斯已于4月退出竞选，但她的名字仍将出现在周二初选的选票上。
《纽约时报》曝出新指控后，参议院民主党竞选委员会主席 Kirsten Gillibrand 告诉记者：“我们仍将关注缅因州的竞选。”2017年，吉列布兰德曾牵头推动时任参议员阿尔·弗兰肯因不当行为指控辞职。
也有人表示不会支持他。“他对所有人都撒了谎。他说在纳粹纹身事件后就没有其他问题了，但现在这类指控越来越多，”宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员约翰·费特曼告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。“所以我想，就像人们常说的——在德克萨斯州你看到的每一个牧场，背后都还有50个你没看到的。”
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Graham Platner faces another controversy days ahead of Maine Senate primary
June 5, 2026 / 4:08 PM EDT / CBS News
For the second time this week, Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing another major controversy just days ahead of the Maine primary he is poised to win.
On Thursday, the New York Times reported allegations of Platner’s “unsettling” behavior toward women he dated, including one claim that he was physically abusive, which Platner denies.
According to the Times, Platner’s then-girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield, said that while they were dating a decade ago, he “regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks.” During one argument, he “twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom, and held the door closed.”
In an interview with MS Now after the Times report was published, Platner denied Fifield’s claims. “There are some allegations in this piece that I just want to be kind of unequivocal about, are simply not true,” he said.
Platner, a political novice and oyster farmer, has also insisted that he did not know a chest tattoo he got as a Marine while drunk in 2007 is a widely recognized Nazi symbol. He has since had the tattoo covered up. But Fifield told the Times that Platner did know its significance, and that he even joked about it.
“Anything alleging physicality, anything alleging that I knew what my tattoo was — these are the statements of someone who is politically motivated,” Platner said in the interview.
Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks during a town hall on May 20, 2026 in Portland, Maine. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
In a statement to CBS News, Platner said: “Throughout this campaign, I’ve been open about what was a very dark period of my life where I struggled with undiagnosed PTSD, too often self medicated with alcohol, and was a far from perfect boyfriend. I take responsibility for all of that, and wish I had been better. Any characterization beyond that is false, and I believe, politically motivated. I’m not proud of who I was then, but I am proud of the work I’ve done since, and the movement we are building in Maine.”
Fifield is a conservative who lives in Virginia and has worked for Republican campaigns and the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, according to publicly available bios. She said she dated Platner from 2013-2015, and told the Times that she has not been paid by a political campaign or entity since she worked briefly for Nikki Haley’s 2024 presidential campaign.
Platner also acknowledged he sent sexually explicit text messages to other women soon after he married his wife, Amy Gertner, in 2023. Gertner had disclosed the existence of the messages to the campaign soon after it launched. On Thursday, Platner told MS Now: “At the beginning of our marriage, I made mistakes, and Amy held me accountable for them. And we worked through them.”
Maine’s Senate race is one of the most closely watched in the country — it’s among a small number of toss-ups that could determine who controls the Senate after the midterm elections this fall. Platner faced scrutiny from some Democratic senators when he visited them in Washington, D.C., earlier this week. Vermont Sen. Peter Welch told CBS News that during the meeting, he told Platner that “he has the obligation as a candidate to address the legitimate questions that Mainers have, the personal and political.”
Others have been standing by Platner. California Rep. Ro Khanna is planning to campaign for the candidate at a get-out-the-vote rally in Maine Friday night. In a statement, Khanna said: “The behavior described in the New York Times story was wrong and toxic. Graham has acknowledged that and sought redemption. The people of Maine deserve a senator who is going to stand up to the billionaire class, against genocide, and for the working class.”
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was one of the first to endorse Platner, even as Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer backed Gov. Janet Mills earlier in the primary. “All I can tell you is that the wealthiest people in this country have now reserved close to $100 million in TV ads in a small state like Maine. So, what are the billionaires worried about? Why are they spending so much money trying to defeat this guy? The answer is that he’s going to stand up to the oligarchs,” Sanders told reporters ahead of the meeting with Platner in D.C. on Tuesday.
Mills dropped out of the race in April, but her name will remain on the ballot in Tuesday’s primary.
After the new allegations surfaced in the Times, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who chairs the Senate Democrats campaign arm, told reporters: “We’re still doing Maine.” Gillibrand helped lead the charge to drive then-Sen. Al Franken out of office in 2017 after misconduct allegations.
Others say they won’t support him. “He lied to everybody. He said that there wasn’t any[thing] after his Nazi tattoo situation. And now there’s more and more of these things,” Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman told CBS News. “So I assume, you know, it’s like they say — for every ranch you see in Texas, there’s 50 that you haven’t seen.”
Fin Daniel Gómez contributed to this report.
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