Slate - Maine’s Democratic Senate primary has become one of the most closely watched races of the 2026 midterms, and one of the most contentious within the party itself. Graham Platner, a 41-year-old combat veteran and oyster farmer from a town of 1,000, is leading two-term Gov. Janet Mills by more than 30 points in the most recent poll. That’s despite a rocky October that surfaced offensive Reddit posts from Platner’s past, as well as a chest tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol, which he promptly had covered with a new design. He’s outraised Mills. He’s been endorsed by Sens. Bernie Sanders, Martin Heinrich, and, most recently, Ruben Gallego. And still, he says, no one from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has spoken to him.