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Posted on 04/30/2026 6:47:55 AM PDT by DFG
Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday she was suspending her campaign for the US Senate — clearing the way for far-left candidate Graham Platner to face five-term Republican incumbent Susan Collins in November.
“While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else –the fight — to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources,” Mills said in a statement.
“That is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate.”
The 78-year-old Mills, a two-term governor and former state lawmaker and Maine attorney general, had been considered a top Democratic recruit when she announced her challenge to Collins last year. She had the backing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and prominent left-leaning advocacy groups including EMILYs List and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
However, polls consistently showed Mills trailing far behind Platner ahead of the June 9 Democratic primary, despite several weeks of controversy over the 41-year-old Marine veteran’s prominent display of a skull-and-crossbones tattoo resembling the “Totenkopf” emblem of the Nazi SS.
Platner, the head of a Maine oyster farming operation and grandson of modernist architect Warren Platner, has claimed he got the tattoo during a drunken 2007 outing while on leave in Croatia and had no knowledge of its fascist links.
In November of last year, Platner had the death’s head concealed with a tattoo of a Celtic knot with a dog jumping out of the image.
Mills argued she was the best candidate to stand up to President Trump, noting she told him she would see him in court last year after the administration pulled federal funding amid a dispute over transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports.
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Leaving the literal Nazi as the D candidate?
As long as Maine has RCV and RCV-enabled electronic voting machines, Deep State has nothing to worry about.
Interesting that the money went to the more radical of two extreme leftists. Given the general obtuseness of Maine voters and the heavy Somali presence in Maine, I smell a set up.
What difference does it make Left is Left ,LOL
And here we are...
I did not realize she’s 7 freaking 8! But she’s the best one to take in Trump.
It’s about time those “mainers” have a Governor with a Nazi tattoo on his chest.
The entire NE is a lost cause. King Charles was here recently, should have given him back the deed to those states.
It sounds like the far-left candidate withdrew to make room for the further left candidate. Let Mainer Freepers weigh in, but I think this means a squishy Republican moderate who votes with conservatives around half the time has an easier path to re-election.
This is what will happen in CA - deals will be made to thin the Democratic field so that at least one gets to the runoff. And then GOP hopes there will be toast. Collins is awful, but you gotta hope she can hold the seat.
Trump’s curse strikes again. Anyone who goes against Trump is ruined. Recall that in a WH governors meeting he told lizard face Mills that her political career was over for allowing boys to compete in girl’s sports. Boom.
She’s too young. In another six years she’ll be ripe for the Senate.
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“When you listen to how we talk about organizing, when you certainly look at our theory of politics around wealth inequality, our theory of politics around how the system has been structured to benefit the ultra wealthy at the expense of working people — I very much feel like I do fall in the legacy of Sen. Sanders,” Platner told NBC News. “I very much want to see this politics continue into the future. That’s why I’m doing this.”
He said if Democrats win control of the Senate, they must use subpoena power to investigate the Trump administration.
“I want to shut the White House down,” Platner said. “I want us to, for the next two years, be dragging every single person in the White House, every single person in all these agencies that have been conducting themselves in illegal and unconstitutional ways. They need to be dragged by subpoena in front of Senate committees over and over and over again.”
We’ll see. Mail voting opens here in CA on Monday. I’m surprised to see Becerra supposedly going from about 3% before Swalwell, to 19 now. It does make sense that the rat voters could be dissatisfied with the prior front runner Porter and Steyer, but I’m suspicious about such a rocket change
What a punk!
“Speaking with the Maine Monitor last week, Platner described his reaction to learning he had been accused of having a Nazi tattoo after it was revealed he had a skull-and-crossbones tattoo resembling the Totenkopf used by Hitler’s SS paramilitary forces.
“I was like, ‘Well, that’s the f-—ing most r-——— s-— I’ve ever heard in my life,’” Platner said. “‘No, I don’t have a White supremacist tattoo,’ and I never thought about it again. And then it came up later on, and I was like, ‘God f-—ing damn it.’”
I think Collins will win. She’s been dependable for them and can present herself as the adult in the room. The left in that state couldn’t be that insane.
“n 2002, my classmate Graham Platner ran for student-body president of John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor. I remember watching him in our auditorium debate his fellow candidates. He was the radical, wearing a revolutionary proletarian costume: overalls and a red armband. (When I asked him about this recently, he told me he thought he had a history presentation to give that day.) I don’t recall the issues they discussed, but I do remember Platner proposing collective action to overturn some school policy—saying something along the lines of “They can’t suspend us all.” The history teacher serving as moderator interjected to remind Platner and everyone else that, yes, in fact, they could.
Students elected the safe candidate, a future chiropractor. But Platner had other outlets for his energy and ideas. Around that time, he skipped school to protest the coming Iraq war when President George W. Bush visited our local airport—and was forcibly removed by the Secret Service. In the high school yearbook, our class voted him “most likely to start a revolution.”
She has been a pain in the neck for the Republicans, which will help her in the general election.
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