{"id":22074,"date":"2026-04-30T13:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mills-drops-out-of-maine-senate-race-setting-up-platner-to-face-collins\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:17:05","slug":"mills-drops-out-of-maine-senate-race-setting-up-platner-to-face-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mills-drops-out-of-maine-senate-race-setting-up-platner-to-face-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills drops out of Maine Senate race, setting up Platner to face Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills suspended her campaign for Senate on Thursday, as her progressive challenger, oyster farmer Graham Platner, continued to lead in the polls and in fundraising. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a shocking fall off for the incumbent governor, who was once the preferred candidate of national Democrats in the race. <\/p>\n<p>And it sets up a likely general election matchup between Platner and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a five-term incumbent with a formidable electoral track record who Democrats are nonetheless hopeful they can knock off amid backlash to Republicans and President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else \u2013 the fight \u2013 to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources,\u201d Mills said in a statement Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<p><i>This is a breaking news article that will be updated.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills suspended her campaign for Senate on Thursday, as her progressive challenger, oyster farmer Graham Platner, continued to lead in the polls and in fundraising. It\u2019s a shocking fall off for the incumbent governor, who was once the preferred candidate of national Democrats in the race. And it sets up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22074","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\/22074","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=22074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}