Four states have primaries on Tuesday. Election officials predict most results will come in late in the evening, though mail-in ballots may delay things.
Progressive Democrat Graham Platner won the party’s Senate primary in Maine after a bruising campaign which became as much about accusations of his past misbehavior as it was voters’ top concerns. Tyler Kendall has more (Source: Bloomberg)
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President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Susan Collins‘s (R-ME) reelection bid against Graham Platner, the embattled Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, despite his checkered relationship with Collins. “She does because she’s a sane woman,” Trump said during a Wednesday event at the White House when asked about his support of the Maine senator. “She’s not […]
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Graham Platner, a Marine veteran, oyster farmer and progressive activist, has won the Democratic nomination for the US Senate in Maine. Platner won 72% of the vote, defeating the state governor, Janet Mills, who suspended her campaign in April but remained on the ballot. Platner received scrutiny during the campaign for old incendiary Reddit posts, a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol, sexually explicit messages sent to other women early in his marriage and accusations from a former girlfriend, denied by Platner, that he was physically intimidating. Platner will face the senator Susan Collins, a Republican running for a sixth six-year term, in November. The race is seen as a must-win for Democrats to take control of the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-47 majority.Graham Platner shrugs off scandals to win Maine Democratic Senate primaryDemocrats rally round Platner in Maine as Trump reaffirms grip on GOP after primaries Continue reading...
Graham Platner easily secured Maine's Democratic nomination for a key U.S. Senate seat. In South Carolina, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace's career derailed.
Winners in the Republican and Democratic primary races for governor and in a Democratic congressional primary have not yet been determined.