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Molly McPherson analyzes Amy Gertner's effective crisis response during a Senate campaign scandal.

When a Senate campaign gets hit with a sexting scandal, the spouse is supposed to disappear. Amy Gertner grabbed her phone, walked into a cloud of Maine blackflies, and recorded the most effective crisis response of the cycle. Everyone is covering the Wall Street Journal texts. Molly is covering the betrayal underneath them, and the moment a candidate who built his brand on owning his record reached for the worst page in the 2026 crisis playbook. Chapters: 0:00 — The Reddit Bomb That Finally ...

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Host: Molly McPherson

Topics covered

• crisis response
• politics
• scandals
• media coverage
• campaign strategy

Keywords

• crisis response
• Amy Gertner
• Graham Platner
• sexting scandal
• political campaign

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wall Street Journal

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