Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said Saturday he will wear a suit every day in the Senate if Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner can prove that none of the sexually explicit messages tied to his Kik account went to anyone underage, escalating the most public Democrat attack yet on a candidate the party had been counting on to flip a critical seat.

The challenge came on Fox News Channel's "Saturday in America," where Fetterman, in his trademark black hoodie, addressed Platner by his Kik handle, "P-Hustle."

Host Kayleigh McEnany shook her head at the label. "P-Hustle, here's a great chance. You can just prove that all these people that you're dropping those d**k pics and saying these things to were over 18 [year olds]," Fetterman said.

"I will wear a suit every day in the Senate."

Fetterman pressed Platner to open the full record.

"You can set the record clear and provide all of those texts and all of those conversations that you were having as a newlywed just before you were going to run for the Senate," he said, then added a one-word demand: "Transparency."

Kik, an anonymous messaging app, has been probed over underage users.

On Sean Hannity's program earlier in the week, Fetterman put it more bluntly, saying Platner "had a problem with me, how I dress, but he seemed to have no problem posing in a towel at a disgusting website that consistently had serious problems about that kind of depravity."

Platner, who has admitted having an active Kik account while newly married, has denied wrongdoing and has not been accused of any unlawful conduct involving minors.

The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported last month that his wife, Amy Gertner, told campaign staff in August 2025 about sexually explicit texts she had discovered between her husband and other women earlier in their marriage.

Genevieve McDonald, the campaign's former political director, told The Associated Press that Platner had been "sexting multiple women while married" and that aides treated the matter as a potential vulnerability before deciding it was private.

The scandal then widened.

The New York Times reported claims by ex-girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield, a former Republican operative who dated Platner from 2013 to 2015, that he twisted her arm behind her back and shoved her into a bedroom, holding the door shut until she was "calm."

Platner denied that account on MS NOW host Chris Hayes' program, calling Fifield's story of being pushed into a room false.

He has also called the broader reporting "journalistic malpractice."

CNN independently verified that a Kik account under the username "phustle0331," showing a shirtless man in a towel, appears to belong to Platner; his campaign said he had deleted the app from his phone but had not deactivated the account.

The stakes are immediate.

Maine's Democratic primary is June 9, and Platner, a Marine Corps veteran backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., holds a wide lead after Democrat Maine Gov. Janet Mills suspended active campaigning.

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