A leaked story about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's old infidelity is generating headlines, but it likely won't sink his campaign — bad for the Democratic establishment hoping it would.

• Platner, the likely Democratic nominee for a key Maine Senate seat, is facing a report that he exchanged explicit texts with several women early in his marriage.
• His wife found the texts years ago, they worked through it in counseling, and she has publicly forgiven him and is angry the story went public.
• The leak came from a former campaign aide now working against him, not from normal reporting, which many see as a dirty move.
• Platner is anti-establishment and critical of Israel, and the harder Democratic leaders push against him, the more his base rallies behind him — much like Trump.
• His misstep was disputing parts of the story instead of brushing it off, which keeps the controversy alive.

Outlook: Maine voters will likely shrug this off, and Platner stays the frontrunner heading into the general election against Susan Collins.