{"id":13103,"date":"2025-09-10T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mills-is-interviewing-staff-for-a-possible-senate-run-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:21:15","slug":"mills-is-interviewing-staff-for-a-possible-senate-run-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mills-is-interviewing-staff-for-a-possible-senate-run-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills is interviewing staff for a possible Senate run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &ldquo;seriously considering&rdquo; a run against longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins and will have a decision by November&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/10\/congress\/mills-inches-closer-to-senate-run-00555083\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &ldquo;seriously considering&rdquo; a run against longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins and will have a decision by November&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103","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=13103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}