{"id":13087,"date":"2025-09-10T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mills-is-interviewing-staff-for-a-possible-senate-run\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:48:34","slug":"mills-is-interviewing-staff-for-a-possible-senate-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mills-is-interviewing-staff-for-a-possible-senate-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills is interviewing staff for a possible Senate run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is interviewing staff for a potential Senate bid, a person familiar with the process confirmed on Wednesday. The news was first reported by Punchbowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The interviews come as Mills is \u201cseriously considering\u201d a run against longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins and will have a decision by November<\/a>, according to local news reports.<\/p>\n

Maine is a top offensive target for Senate Democrats this cycle, the only one in a state that former Vice President Kamala Harris won in November. And many Democrats point to Collins’ declining popularity<\/a> in the polls as proof that she’s vulnerable, even if those in the state think she would be difficult to beat thanks to her strong independent political brand.<\/p>\n

Mills, who is 77 and term-limited as governor, would join a growing Democratic primary field. So far, oyster farmer Graham Platner<\/a>, Maine Beer Company owner Dan Kleban<\/a> and former chief of staff to Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), Jordan Wood<\/a>, have already entered the race.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has worked to recruit Mills in the race, citing her track record of winning statewide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is interviewing staff for a potential Senate bid, a person familiar with the process confirmed on Wednesday. The news was first reported by Punchbowl. The interviews come as Mills is \u201cseriously considering\u201d a run against longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins and will have a decision by November, according to local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}