US EditionMaine Democratic Senate Primary Grows Increasingly Bitter as Party Vies to Unseat Susan Collins in Key Race
Mills’s ad targets Platner’s 2013 Reddit remarks and Nazi-linked tattoo to question his electability in the June 9 Maine Senate primary, amid rising voter support for Platner.
- On Tuesday, Governor Janet Mills released a 30-second television ad opposing Graham Platner that highlights his online history and ends with a shirtless image revealing a tattoo linked to Nazi imagery reported last year.
- Seeking to protect electability, the campaign views an ad as a more aggressive stance as the June 9 primary approaches, with many voters still unaware of Platner's past.
- Featuring Maine women, the ad quotes a 2013 Reddit post where Platner suggested victims should 'not get so f***ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to' and apologized, saying, 'For those of you who have read these things and been offended, have read these things and seen someone that you don't recognize, I am deeply sorry'.
- Mills campaign says the ad signals a more aggressive phase and a $10 million statewide buy across broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms, testing voter reactions.
- The primary's result matters nationally because Platner has maintained momentum and a lead in recent polls, despite last year's controversies, and has outraised Mills, shaping the race against Collins.
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Mills spotlights Platner’s controversial past remarks in first negative ad
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Graham Platner speaks to a crowd of about 200 in Caribou on Oct. 4, 2025. (Photo by Emma Davis/ Maine Morning Star)Gov. Janet Mills is spotlighting her U.S. Senate primary opponent Graham Platner’s controversial past in her first negative ad, marking an aggressive shift in the campaign one day after the line-up for the June 9 primary was finalized. The six-figure ad buy, which the Mills campaign said will str…
Mills and Platner spar over attack ad in Maine primary to face Susan Collins
The campaign of U.S. Senate hopeful Gov. Janet Mills released an advertisement Tuesday criticizing comments posted online by her rival Graham Platner, in an intensification of their Maine Democratic primary battle.
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Mills and Platner spar over attack ad in intensification of Maine primary to face Susan Collins
Democratic U.S. Senate hopefuls Gov. Janet Mills and Graham Platner are sparring over an advertisement released by the Mills campaign criticizing Platner’s past online comments. Mills and Platner are competing for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Sen. Susan…
Platner Takes First Haymaker From Mills Campaign
AUGUSTA — Only a day after Graham Platner reversed his Nazi symbol stance and decided the tattoo design is “eminently reasonable”, he suffered his first smackdown from Gov. Janet Mills’ campaign this morning as his suggestions that women are the ones at fault for sexual assault resurfaces. The Mills campaign posted its first coordinated attack [...] The post Platner Takes First Haymaker From Mills Campaign appeared first on The Maine Wire.
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