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Janet Mills drops out of race for US Senate (www.mainepublic.org)

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Gov. Janet Mills announced today that she is suspending her campaign for U.S. Senate, ending speculation about the viability of her candidacy as she struggled to gain ground against oyster farmer Graham Platner in the Democratic primary.

Her announcement shakes up a pivotal race that Democrats see as critical to their chances of gaining the majority in the U.S. Senate. Mills was recruited by Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. — who viewed the two-term governor as the best candidate to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November — but she struggled to match or blunt Platner's momentum after he launched his campaign in August last year.

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[–] chelly__1@lemmychan.org 4 points 14 hours ago

Mills was recruited by Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer

That alone makes me not want to support her.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

Good.

Centrist spoilers need to slither back into their holes. Workers are sick and tired of being told that better things aren't possible while watching corporations ratchet up price gouging, rob us of our labor, and line the pockets of Democratic partisan ideologues in Washington.