Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) suggested she could restart her Maine Senate campaign after suspending it in April against Democrat Graham Platner as the embattled progressive insurgent faces fallout from his latest scandal involving sexts to women who were not his wife.
“People have the impression that I ‘withdrew’ or ‘dropped out,’” Mills told the Portland Press Herald. “But I simply suspended active campaigning. I am still on the ballot.”
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The Washington Examiner has reached out to the Mills campaign for additional comment.
Platner will travel to Washington on Tuesday to meet with Senate Democrats and fundraise, according to Axios, as he manages the political fallout from the latest scandal that threatens to weigh him down in the battleground general election against centrist Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).
Platner and his wife, Amy Gertner, confirmed over the weekend that Graham exchanged sexually explicit texts with women other than Gertner since they got married in
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