'Abhorrent': Gov. Mills Holds News Conference Blasting Graham Platner Amid Primary Race

How Graham Platner is using TV ads to drown out Janet Mills’ attacks

PoliticsOur political journalists are based in the Maine State House and have deep source networks across the partisan spectrum in communities all over the state. Their coverage aims to cut through major debates and probe how officials make decisions. Read more Politics coverage here. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is outspending Gov. Janet Mills heavily on TV ads in an effort to parry her new attacks on old Reddit posts looming…

'Abhorrent': Gov. Mills holds news conference blasting Graham Platner amid primary race

In the race for U.S. Senate, Governor Janet Mills is speaking out for the first time about her ad targeting her Democratic primary opponent, Graham Platner.

In attacking Graham Platner, Maine Gov. Janet Mills hopes women will energize her U.S. Senate bid

This week, Mills, who's been trailing Platner in publicly available polling, launched an attack ad that leans heavily on one of her strengths to try to expose a potential weakness in her opponent’s resilient candidacy: women voters.