Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday she was suspending her campaign for the US Senate — clearing the way for far-left candidate Graham Platner to face five-term Republican incumbent Susan Collins.
“While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else — the fight — to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources,” Mills said in a statement. “That is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate.
Polls showed Mills trailing far behind Platner ahead of the June 9 Democratic primary, despite several weeks of controversy over the 41-year-old former Marine’s prominent display of a skull tatoo resembling the “Totenkopf” emblem of the Nazi SS.
Democrats are eyeing the Maine seat as the easiest potential pickup in the November midterms. Collins is currently the only Republican to represent any of the six New England states in the House or Senate.
