{"id":150618,"date":"2026-04-30T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150618"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:15:27","slug":"mills-drops-out-of-maine-senate-race-setting-up-platner-to-face-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150618","title":{"rendered":"Mills drops out of Maine Senate race, setting up Platner to face Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\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>This is a breaking news article that will be updated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/janet-mills-maine-senate-dropout-00899664\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics 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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}