New Poll Shows Platner Leading Collins by 5 Points in Maine Senate Race, Days After Reports of Sexually Explicit Messages

U.S. Senate in Maine. A separate survey conducted last month, before reports of Platner's alleged sexually explicit messages to women, placed him at 48 percent and Collins at 43 percent among likely voters.

U.S. Marine combat veteran who lives a short walk from his childhood home in Sullivan, Maine. " Platner's parents, Bronson Platner and Leslie Harlow, divorced after separating when he was six.

Bronson Platner, 81, worked as a local attorney specializing in real estate and business transactions and has donated more than $65,000 since 2011 to federal Democratic candidates and parties, including $3,500 to Senator Ruben Gallego weeks after Gallego endorsed his son.

Leslie Harlow, 72, owns and operates Ironbound restaurant in Hancock, was a delegate at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and hosted political fundraisers at the restaurant. Platner briefly attended the Hotchkiss School in 1999 on financial assistance covering the then $25,000 annual tuition before being expelled.

Annual fees at the school now start at $68,700. He later attended John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, where tuition is currently $12,500, starred in a production of My Fair Lady, and was voted most likely to start a revolution. Platner receives nearly $60,000 in annual tax-free disability benefits stemming from four combat tours.

Bronson Platner paid for his son's home and for Platner and his wife Amy Gertner to travel to Norway for fertility treatments this year. Leslie Harlow is the oyster farm's biggest customer. Graham Platner's grandfather Warren Platner was a renowned architect.