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Maine Senate Primary<\/h2>\n

On the Democratic side, the presumptive nominee is Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and the former harbormaster of Sullivan, Maine. Platner, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is running on a progressive, populist platform, calling for universal health care, raising the federal minimum wage, and ending U.S. military aid to Israel. His campaign has also been marked by scandals, including resurfaced Reddit posts where Platner made derogatory remarks about rural Americans, police officers, and Black people; the revelation of a skull-and-bones tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi Totenkopf insignia; and allegations that he has sexted with multiple women after marrying in 2023. In the final days of the primary race, the Times<\/em> reported that several of Platner\u2019s ex-girlfriends have described him, variously, as contemptuous of women, unfaithful, and generally \u201cunsettling.\u201d His most serious challenger, Maine\u2019s governor, Janet Mills, suspended her campaign, in April. Platner has been endorsed by national progressive figures such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n

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On the Republican side, the incumbent, Susan Collins, is running unopposed. Collins, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has been a senator for almost thirty years, during which time she has never missed a vote in the chamber. She is considered a moderate Republican, and won her election in 2020 by a significant margin, despite former President Joe Biden winning the majority of votes in Maine that year. President Donald Trump declined to endorse Collins, but many in the Republican establishment have declared their support, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Vice-President J.\u00a0D. Vance.<\/p>\n

Maine Second Congressional District Primary<\/h2>\n

In Maine\u2019s Second District, the incumbent congressman Jared Golden opted not to run for re\u00eblection, citing the risk of political violence and saying he had \u201cgrown tired of the increasing incivility and plain nastiness\u201d of politics. Golden, a Democrat, was able to win four consecutive terms in the district, which went for Trump in both 2020 and 2024, by running on a moderate platform and often voting with Republicans in the House, including, recently, in support of Trump\u2019s invasion of Iran.<\/p>\n

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The front-runner in the Democratic primary is Joe Baldacci, a state senator from Bangor and the brother of John Baldacci, Maine\u2019s former governor. His leading challenger is Matthew Dunlap, the state auditor and Maine\u2019s former secretary of state, who is running to Baldacci\u2019s left and who has been endorsed by the progressive PAC<\/em> Our Revolution. Jordan Wood, who served as the chief of staff for the former U.S. representative Katie Porter, has also mounted a surprisingly successful campaign, running on a platform focussed on campaign-finance reform. Paige Loud, a social worker and a member of the Cherokee Nation, is also running.<\/p>\n

On the Republican side, the de-facto candidate is Paul LePage, who served two terms as the state\u2019s governor. LePage\u2019s tenure was marked by several attempts to circumvent the state legislature; he vetoed more bills than every Maine governor from the previous hundred years combined. LePage\u2019s controversial statements include endorsing child labor for kids as young as twelve; saying that drug dealers from Connecticut with names like \u201cD-Money, Smoothie, Shifty\u201d come up to Maine to sell heroin and to impregnate young white girls; telling the N.A.A.C.P. that they could \u201ckiss my butt\u201d after he refused to attend Martin Luther King, Jr., Day events; and calling the I.R.S. the \u201cnew Gestapo.\u201d After finishing his second term as governor, LePage took a break from politics and worked as a bartender at McSeagull\u2019s, a seafood restaurant in Boothbay Harbor.<\/p>\n

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