BREAKING: The Democratic Governor of Maine just announced her campaign to defeat Susan Collins. This is huge.

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This is a great announcement video

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1. Maine Senate Race Moves To Toss Up With Mills' Entrance

Mills is clearly more electable than any other candidate

Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ entrance into the Senate race on Tuesday marks a significant escalation in political firepower aimed at longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins. We are moving the contest from Lean R -> Toss Up.

— The Cook Political Report (@cookpolitical.com) 2025-10-14T13:38:17.516Z

https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/senate/maine-senate/maine-senate-race-moves-toss-mills-entrance

Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ entrance into the Senate race on Tuesday marks a significant escalation in political firepower aimed at longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins, the only Republican senator representing a state carried by then-Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. For the first time since she was elected in 1996, Collins could face off against a sitting statewide officeholder who, like her, has a proven track record of outperforming the presidential ticket of her party.

Mills, of course, does not have a clear path to the nomination, and there is no guarantee that she will win it. But she is a top-tier recruit in a field that currently lacks a well-known or well-established candidate. And while Collins has defied electoral expectations for decades, the political environment today is more polarized than ever, which makes Collins’ ability to effectively straddle partisan lines more challenging.

As such, we are moving the contest from Lean Republican to Toss Up.

There are several other Democrats in the race, but oyster farmer and first-time political candidate Graham Platner appears to be Mills’ most serious

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2. Go Gov. Mills!!! 🩵💙🩵

Maine should support a Senator that will be fighter/defender of its citizenry. Susan Collins supports the whims/wishes of the elite, and her shelf life as a Senator has reached its expiration date.

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3. Susan Collins' personal integrity.

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Susan Collins was a 'right time, right place' candidate...
She was in a three person primary race and so far back she could not even see the other two candidates' tail lights.

The millionaire candidate sponsored an investigation of the evangelist candidate who got run out of a southern state because he was boinking his twelve year old babysitter.

The millionaire denied his involvement but the public turned against both him and the evangelist, leaving Susan Collins as the sole remaining candidate.
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"I pledge that if I'm elected I will only serve two terms..."

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4. Look where Spineless Susan's "concern" has gotten us....

Right to 1930’s Nazi Germany

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5. Governor Mills addresses the age issue

Meiselas: What do you say to people who say while Governor Mills has been a great governor, she’s 77 years old, and we need younger leadership?

Mills: It’s a fair point… But I don’t think I could live with myself if I didn’t do everything I can to reverse what’s going on in Washington

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T15:30:35.908Z

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6. The DSCC and Janet Mills have formed a joint fundraising committee together.

This makes me smile

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7. Mills launches her Senate bid with 'no promises' to Schumer

Mills is clear that she has made no promises to Chuck Schumer

Mills launches her Senate bid with ‘no promises’ to Schumer | Semafor
www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

— Subconscious Proxy (@subconsciousproxy.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T16:35:34.435Z

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/14/2025/mills-launches-her-senate-bid-with-no-promises-to-schumer

Chuck Schumer may hope Maine Gov. Janet Mills wins the Democratic nomination to run against Susan Collins next fall, but Mills is still starting off by keeping her distance from him.

If Mills makes it to the Senate by navigating a tough primary and then beating Collins, she says Schumer will need to prove he’s worth her support to remain Democratic leader.

“Nobody in the state of Maine has asked me about Chuck Schumer. And I’ve actually met with him only once in my life, seven or eight months ago. And I’ve made no promises, no commitments, to anybody running for leadership,” Mills told Semafor in an interview.

“My vote is not guaranteed to Senator Schumer or anybody else; they’ll have to earn it,” she added.

The two-term governor’s decision to run for the Senate seat will no doubt cheer Schumer — and it instantly makes Maine’s campaign into one of the most important in the nation. First Mills will test whether Democrats have changed their electability calculus by taking on a crowded primary field, including 40-year-old oysterman Graham Platner, who opposes Schumer as leader.

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9. Emily's List has endorsed Governor Mills

While Susan Collins bows down to Trump, Maine Gov. Janet Mills is fighting back and winning. She's always fought for a better future for the people of Maine, and now, she'll take that fight to the U.S. Senate. That's why we're thrilled to endorse Gov. Mills for election to the U.S. Senate today.

— EMILYs List (@emilyslist.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T13:57:43.843Z