Perspective please

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There are two other candidates running for the same office who have actual experience that I would prefer my Senator have. And Mills is still on the ballot, bet she gets a lot more votes than some expect.

As Platner Faces Controversy in Maine, Mills Notes, ‘I Am Still on the Ballot’


Gov. Janet Mills of Maine, who bowed out of the state’s Senate race a month ago, suggested in a new interview that she remained an option for Democratic voters as Graham Platner, the party’s likely nominee, faced scrutiny over reports that he had sent sexual messages to women outside his marriage.

“People have the impression that I ‘withdrew’ or ‘dropped out,’” Ms. Mills said in an interview published on Monday in The Portland Press Herald. “I simply suspended active campaigning. I am still on the ballot.”

Ms. Mills delivered her assessment to Steve Collins, a columnist at the newspaper, Maine’s largest.

Her comments came amid the latest political firestorm for Mr. Platner, 41, an oyster farmer and first-time political candidate who has galvanized progressives. His momentum drove Ms. Mills, 78, a two-term governor who had been endorsed by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, from the race in late April.

The latest furor involving Mr. Platner involves an admission that he had sent sexually explicit texts to as many as six women since he was married in 2023. His campaign previously survived uproars over a tattoo that resembled a Nazi symbol (he has since had it covered up) and inflammatory old Reddit posts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/mills-platner-maine-democratic-senate-primary.html