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The chaotic Democratic scramble to challenge Susan Collins for her Maine Senate seat.
27 articles · Started 2026-07-06 · Last updated 2026-08-12
Susan Collins has survived everything Maine politics could throw at her for nearly three decades, but a new Fox News poll out Wednesday suggests her biggest...
Susan Collins is the only sitting Republican senator up for reelection in a state that Donald Trump lost in 2024. Democrats handed her opponent slot to a guy...
Susan Collins has seen enough. The Maine Republican announced Tuesday she will vote against Todd Blanche's confirmation as attorney general, citing a Justice...
Maine Democrats had one job: find a less disastrous Senate candidate than the guy who dropped out over a rape allegation. They picked a man who has two...
The 2026 midterm Senate map is taking shape, and the answer to whether Democrats can actually claw back control is: maybe, sort of, possibly, who knows....
Five months into a war that Congress never authorized, two-thirds of Americans want the United States to end the conflict with Iran right now. President Trump...
Bernie Sanders went on national television Sunday to pump up his slate of progressive 2026 candidates, declare war on the billionaire class for the ten...
Graham Platner's Senate campaign lasted right up until it didn't, ending in a rape allegation and a very public implosion. So Maine Democrats did what any...
Maine Democrats spent approximately one week in full panic mode after their Senate nominee quit over sexual assault allegations, and then watched their entire...
A Maine Democratic Senate candidate was asked what qualifies her to serve in the United States Senate on Thursday night, and she answered, in part, that she is...
Graham Platner is gone, disgraced, out of the Maine Senate race. And yet, on Thursday night, eight Democrats stood on a stage and competed over who loves his...
Maine Democrats had their guy. He won the primary handily, he was galvanizing voters who'd given up on politics entirely, and he had a real shot at unseating...
ICE agents shot and killed a man in Biddeford, Maine on Monday, and by evening, hundreds of protesters were in the streets and every serious Democrat running...
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine, officially filed paperwork Friday to remove his name from the November ballot, ending one of...
Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and Marine veteran who somehow became Democrats' best shot at unseating Susan Collins, officially filed paperwork Friday to...
Graham Platner filed his official withdrawal from Maine's Senate race on Thursday, two days after announcing he was out following rape allegations from a...
Graham Platner, the Maine oyster farmer Democrats were ready to send to the United States Senate, suspended his campaign this week after a woman he once dated...
Graham Platner just blew a hole in Maine's Senate race by dropping out, and the Democratic Party now has a choice: find someone who actually speaks to...
An oyster farmer won Maine's Democratic primary by the biggest margin in state history, then got taken out by a sexual assault allegation. The actor from...
Donald Trump, a man with his own extensive bibliography of sexual misconduct allegations, climbed aboard Air Force One on Wednesday and offered his hot take on...
Maine Democrats had a Senate candidate. Then a sexual assault accusation happened. Now they have until July 27 to find a replacement to take on Susan Collins,...
Maine Democrats had a Senate candidate. Then they had a sexual assault scandal. Now they have until July 27 to figure out who the hell is going to take on...
Graham Platner, the oysterman-turned-Marine who somehow beat a sitting governor to become Democrats' nominee for Maine's Senate seat, is done. Forty-eight...
Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, is facing a sexual assault allegation he denies, demands to withdraw from Bernie Sanders, Chuck...
Bernie Sanders, the man who campaigned with Graham Platner multiple times and waved off scandal after scandal to keep backing him, has finally told the Maine...
Democrats had one Senate race they were genuinely excited about in 2026. Maine was the play. It was supposed to be the easy one. Now Chuck Schumer is on the...
Maine's Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is reportedly "taking the time to consider his next steps" after his ex-girlfriend accused him of drunkenly...
