Watch: Platner Weighs in on 'Sexting' Story - It's an Absolute Trainwreck

Okay, I thought Democrats had no conscience when it comes to the latest revelations about the presumptive Democratic candidate for the Senate in Maine, Graham Platner, with them scrambling from the questions about him, and making clear that the only thing that matters to them is control of the Senate. The effort to drag him across the line is truly embarrassing.

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But Platner appears intent on imploding his campaign himself. He did an interview with media, with his wife at his side, attacking "establishment media outlets" running "gossip." What a trainwreck. 

“It’s no surprise to me that the establishment media outlets are just gonna run gossip instead of wanting to talk about the things that actually matter in this race, which are the material realities Mainers are working with. These people are gonna try to make this race about anything but what it’s supposed to be about, which is policy. 

"Amy and I have a very loving and very happy marriage. They would very much like to try to rip that apart. They’re gonna come after us in every awful way they possibly can, and we’re just gonna keep talking about the fact that the hospitals are closing, childcare facilities are closing, the fact that teachers and nurses aren’t paid enough, and the fact that everybody down here continues to work harder and longer and get less. But of course, the powers that be do not want us to talk about that, so they’re just gonna do gossip instead."

A reporter then asks the obvious, "But the stories are true, about the texts?"

"No, this is the amazing part," Platner insisted.  

"The Wall Street Journal and the NY Times ran stories without any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer. I'm sorry, that's frankly, journalist malpractice. We pushed back on it, they did it anyways."

He was asked, "So are you confirming that the messages did not exist?"

"I'm confirming what Genevieve McDonald [the whistleblower campaign operative] in the New York Times is not true," he replied. 

"So you never met with her, for lack of a better word, uncomfortable sexting messages, as the campaign was going?" another reporter inquired. 

"We talked about things in Amy and I's marriage that we've gone through over the years, we talked about that, because that's our marriage," he responded. "And we discussed it with the campaign. What Genevieve McDonald claims isn't true." 

But the wife told McDonald about the messages with women, and according to the media, the campaign confirmed there were messages. So what is he even trying to spin here? 

This is what The NY Times reported:

Ms. McDonald said Ms. Gertner told her that her husband had been exchanging sexual messages with as many as a dozen women.

A current Platner campaign official said Mr. Platner had been communicating with up to six women. The conduct had stopped, the official said, before the campaign launched.

The current official said that the messages surfaced when Ms. McDonald asked Ms. Gertner if there was anything she wanted to share amid an internal vetting process. Ms. Gertner told the campaign that the couple had dealt with the issue in counseling, according to the official.

NBC's Julie Tsirkin reported what the campaign is now saying about this new interview from Graham Platner. They're trying to sell that he isn't denying the texts, despite what he said. 

Graham Platner's campaign confirmed the authenticity of the messages reported by WSJ/NYT, exchanged between his wife and former aide. @NBCNews  An official close to the campaign says Platner wasn't denying them here, he was referring to the NYT not having the texts themselves. [...]

A campaign official says Platner “isn’t saying the texts to other women at the start of the marriage are not real. They are.”

The official also said Platner was referring to “inconsistencies” in the reporting “He’s frustrated by the sensationalization of several private facts relayed by a former confidante to journalists.”

But what are the "inconsistencies"? The number of women? Do you really want to die on that hill?

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According to The NYT, a current campaign official is saying he's disputing the number of women.

It's quite something to watch a campaign implode in real time. But I think we can officially say, Platner has jumped the shark with this spin, and the campaign is trying to clean it up. They probably have the sense to know other things might drop.