New: Dems in Disarray Already Underway in Maine As Janet Mills Enters Senate Race

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) sees the seat currently being held by longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins as a prime pick-up opportunity in the 2026 midterm election cycle, as they try to retake the Senate.

As such, they heavily targeted the state's two-term governor, Janet Mills, to join the race, much in the same way they pushed former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper to toss his hat into the ring. And on Tuesday, Mills announced that she was doing just that, positioning herself as the best and most experienced option both to defeat Collins in the general election and to derail the Trump-GOP agenda.

"I've never backed down from a bully and I never will," Mills tweeted. "Donald Trump is ripping away health care from millions, driving up costs, and giving corporate CEOs massive tax cuts. And Susan Collins is helping him."

But though she has the backing of the DSCC, Mills is already facing opposition from some high-profile Democrats amid a growing field of primary candidates. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), for instance, urged Mills not to run shortly before she made her announcement, suggesting another candidate in the race, veteran Graham Platner, is the better option:

“I have nothing against Janet Mills, but I think right now, Susan Collins is absolutely beatable,” Sanders told NOTUS. “She can be beaten, and I think it would be a really sad state of affairs to have to spend millions of dollars on a divisive primary. We should be focusing on beating Susan Collins, and Platner can do that.”
His comment followed an earlier tweet in the day where he boosted Platner over Collins.

Graham Platner is a great working class candidate for Senate in Maine who will defeat Susan Collins.

It’s disappointing that some Democratic leaders are urging Governor Mills to run. We need to focus on winning that seat & not waste millions on an unnecessary & divisive primary.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) October 9, 2025

And in light of what happened with former President Joe Biden, there are other Democrats and affiliated left-wing special interest groups who are raising concerns about Mills' age. She's 77 now, turns 78 in December, and would be 79 ahead of her swearing-in ceremony, should she become the nominee and defeat Collins:

“It just seems sort of irresponsible,” former congresswoman Susan Wild (Pennsylvania), a 68-year-old Democrat who decided not to run for Congress next year because of her age, said of Mills’s decision to run at her age. “We all talk about the importance of attracting new voters and regaining the trust of certain groups that may have fallen away from the Democratic Party, and I think when you do the same old, same old, that is the last thing you are doing.”
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A coalition of top Democratic youth organizations — including the David Hogg-founded Leaders We Deserve and College Democrats of America — endorsed Democrat Graham Platner, a 41-year-old oyster farmer and military veteran, over Mills on Tuesday, citing the governor’s age and their view that the party needs new leadership.

To try and counter those concerns, Mills told NBC News, "Honestly, I would not plan to serve for more than one term. But this time is vital, and this moment in our history is urgent and very troublesome."

Readers might remember that there were reports in late 2019 that Biden had signaled he would only serve one term if elected - as a "transitional" president, but we know how that turned out.

In any event, on a related note, Mills' first ad, in which she proclaimed that she stood up to Trump on federal funding for her state, omitted some key information Maine's voters might like to know more about:

Here’s the full exchange between President Trump & Janet Mills—the same one Mills selectively edited in her campaign launch video to obscure what she was actually arguing with POTUS about.

It was men playing women’s sports.

If elected, Mills would be 85 when her 1st term ends. https://t.co/UsMg6IbAXS pic.twitter.com/TZ4JZfKdXK
— Jesse Arm (@Jesse_Leg) October 14, 2025

Dishonesty right out of the gate. Sounds about par for the course.

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