#janet-mills

#janet-mills

Janet Mills has been a candidate since October, but she hasn't been a huge visible or audible presence in the race, especially in contrast to her opponent, Platner, whose campaign has been built around steady and relentless engagement with voters.

I have been urging Secretary Noem and others in the Administration to get ICE to reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in the state.

Party leaders recruit the best option, in their eyes, and Democratic primary voters-innately terrified of risk and trusting of their leaders' judgment-fall in line. It doesn't always work out. Sometimes, like North Carolina's Cal Cunningham in 2020, the chosen ones have zipper issues. But Democrats' establishment-driven approach, contrasted with Republicans' less top-driven (and more mistake-prone) strategy for candidate selection, did give Democrats four years in the Senate majority from 2021 to 2025,

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills cited her White House confrontation with the Republican president in February as proof that she should serve in the Senate, a bid she formally announced with a campaign launch video Tuesday. "I'll stand up to Trump, just as I did in February," Mills said in a telephone interview previewing her campaign with The Associated Press on Sunday.

Graham Platner is a great working class candidate for Senate in Maine who will defeat Susan Collins, Sanders wrote on X, adding: It's disappointing that some Democratic leaders are urging Governor Mills to run. We need to focus on winning that seat & not waste millions on an unnecessary & divisive primary.

"When he said, 'I am the law, basically we are the law,' my jaw dropped. Every fifth-grade student knows that there are three branches of government."