{"id":14868,"date":"2025-10-26T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mills-takes-lead-over-platner-as-maine-democrats-controversy-swirls-poll\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:20:37","slug":"mills-takes-lead-over-platner-as-maine-democrats-controversy-swirls-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mills-takes-lead-over-platner-as-maine-democrats-controversy-swirls-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills takes lead over Platner as Maine Democrat\u2019s controversy swirls: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has taken the polling lead over Democratic primary challenger Graham Platner in the Pine Tree State&#8217;s 2026 Senate race, according to a survey released Saturday.&nbsp; The SoCal Strategies Maine Poll found Mills garnering 41 percent support from likely voters surveyed, while Platner received 36 percent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5573485-maine-senate-poll-mills-platner\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has taken the polling lead over Democratic primary challenger Graham Platner in the Pine Tree State&#8217;s 2026 Senate race, according to a survey released Saturday.&nbsp; The SoCal Strategies Maine Poll found Mills garnering 41 percent support from likely voters surveyed, while Platner received 36 percent&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14868","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=14868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}