Mainers Want Fresh New Faces to Repesent them in Washington, DC Such as Oyster Farmer and US Marine Vet Graham Platner, 41.  So Far, Graham has Hosted Over 55 Town Halls Whlle Governor Mills Has Hosted ZERO  of Them.  He Served Three Deployments in the US Marines in Iraq and One in Afghanistan with the US National Guard.

A new poll finds that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner leads Governor Janet Mills by 35 points in the primary to take on Senator Susan Collins in the November election according to a press release issued by the Platner Senate campaign early this afternoon.

The new poll also demonstrates the strength of Platner’s support:  76% of Platner’s voters are “very certain” to vote for him, which is half of the Democratic Primary electorate (49%).   By contrast, only half of Mills’ supporters say they are certain to vote for her, accounting for just 15% of voters overall.

The poll, conducted April 6 – 9 by Workbench Strategy, comes long after Govenor Mills launched negative ads against Platner.  73% of voters reported that they had seen or heard “a lot” about the candidates running for Senate, 24% said they had heard “a little,” and just 2% reported not having heard anything.

This poll was conducted by Workbench Strategy from April 6 – 9, 2026 among 600 likely June Democratic Primary voters in the state of Maine.  Surveys were conducted in English via live telephone interviewing on both Landline and cell phone, as well as both text and email invitations to an online survey.  The overall margin of error is 4.00 percentage points the Platner press release ends.

“Governor Janet T. Mills, 78, has held no Town Halls during her campaign for the Senate race.  LIkewise, incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R) has held no town halls since the Clinton administration.  That’s partly because Collins has access to the local newspaper according to a  Collins DC staff member,” reports this blogger.
“On March 15, of 2025 a Collins senate staffer in DC made that statement during a telephone conversation.  She prefers small gatherings of only several people.”