Maine News Tuesday June 23

Election Time  For the first time since March, Susan Collins is projected to win Maine's Senate race.  

Susan Collins    56.9% 

Graham Platner 43.1%

News Center Maine -  Maine Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner has won the endorsement of a prominent reproductive rights group: Planned Parenthood. 

“Reproductive health care is health care. Abortion is health care,” Platner said at a news conference at his Portland campaign office on Monday.  The head of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund described Platner as a "champion" of reproductive freedom and rejected Republican Sen. Susan Collins chiefly because of her vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018.  

Four years ago this week, Kavanaugh and three other justices confirmed by Collins were in the majority that overturned Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 case that had established a national right to abortion.

...“When Susan Collins told us that Brett Kavanaugh had assured her that Roe was settled law—it was the law of the land and that a woman's right to choose was in no way, shape or form under threat—she either lied to us or she was tricked," Platner said. "Neither one of those is something we want out of our United States Senator for the state of Maine.”