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 Whle Governor Mills Has Hosted Zero of Them.

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.

Graham lives in Sulllivan with his wife, Amy, just three doos down from the house where he grew up.