Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner at at a campaign town hall in Portland, Maine, June 7, 2026.(Brian Snyder/Reuters)
With 76 percent of the vote counted as of the end of last night, Graham Platner has won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maine, defeating Governor Janet Mills -- who had technically already suspended her campaign a month ago -- by a thumping 72–20 margin. But it’s not as if Mills would have fared much better had she stayed in the race: Platner was leading her 76–10 in the last University of New Hampshire poll taken before she suspended her campaign.
And it is notable that those are pretty much the numbers that Platner got in his primary. Were you ...
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