{"id":13206,"date":"2026-06-09T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=13206"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:30:12","slug":"janet-mills-attends-barney-franks-funeral-as-dems-pray-for-graham-platner-alternative-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=13206","title":{"rendered":"Janet Mills attends Barney Frank&#8217;s funeral as Dems pray for Graham Platner alternative in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PORTLAND, Maine \u2014\u00a0Democrats\u2019 hopes for an alternative to Graham Platner were laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Gov. Janet Mills\u00a0trekked down to Boston to attend the late Rep. Barney Frank\u2019s funeral as many national Democrats quietly prayed for her to rescue Maine Democrats by reviving her Senate campaign against scandal-plagued Platner.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Mills, the one-time Democratic frontrunner for Senate, abruptly ended her campaign in late April after trailing the controversial oyster farmer by double digits in some polls. Mills, 78, recently reminded the public that she\u2019s still on Tuesday\u2019s ballot as Platner\u2019s campaign has been dogged by a wave of misconduct allegations, including from former girlfriends. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Maine Gov. Janet Mills will still be on the ballot Tuesday in the state\u2019s primary race. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet, Mills opted against resurrecting her campaign and giving jittery Democrats a viable alternative \u2014 and spent election eve at a funeral. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have the impression that I \u2018withdrew\u2019 or \u2018dropped out,\u2019 but I simply suspended active campaigning,\u201d Mills\u00a0teased to the Lewiston Sun Journal earlier this month. \u201cI am still on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ironically, Frank himself had backed Mills in the Senate race and, while in hospice, publicly expressed his qualms about Platner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worry a little bit about the tendency on the Democratic side to fall for the flavor of the month,\u201d Frank told Politico. \u201cThere is this flirtation or this attraction of people who are new and who are very good at articulating a response to the anger, but without talking about what you do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under state law, candidates have to file to withdraw from the ballot 70 days before a primary, which, in this case, was the end of March. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMills sits vetted and scandal-free, with her only baggage being a list of accomplishments and a record of effective scorn for the president,\u201d one Democratic operative noted, referencing the Maine governor\u2019s battles with Trump executive actions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Graham Platner is a total political outsider with baggage that hasn\u2019t been fully unearthed, alarming many Democrats. <span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Robert F. Bukaty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mills has refrained from endorsing anyone in the Maine Senate race. Multiple allies have privately urged her to get back into the Senate race as Democrats sweat over Platner\u2019s viability in a general election. <\/p>\n<p>The Maine governor has declined to do so, but her ballot position is widely seen as a way to gauge a potential Democratic protest vote against Platner, who is the party\u2019s presumptive nominee at this point. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if Platner is anywhere in the 60s he\u2019s in trouble in terms of support,\u201d a Democratic operative aligned with Mills told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Two other Democrats, David Costello, and write-in hopeful Andrea LaFlamme are also vying for the Maine Senate seat, but have lagged behind Platner dramatically in most polling. <\/p>\n<p>Mills had been grappling with lackluster financial resources and a significant polling gap that motivated her to cease active campaigning. <\/p>\n<p>Backed by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mills launched her campaign last October, months after Platner had kicked off his. Some critics argued she jumped into the race too late to gain traction.<\/p>\n<p>Since suspending her campaign, Mills has <span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">made only a few public appearances to tout various accomplishments, such as\u00a0legislation barring cellphones in classrooms,<\/span> and to celebrate dairy farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Now Democrats are doubtful that Platner can defeat incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) \u2014 a win that is paramount to Schumer\u2019s hopes of reclaiming the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>While Platner is ahead of Collins in the latest RealClearPolitics polling aggregate by 7.4 percentage points, she has a history of massively overperforming polls.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also anxiety that the horny oyster farmer might have more skeletons in his closet than is currently known. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, Platner was rocked by a bombshell report about his unsettling past behavior toward his former girlfriends.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Susan Collins managed to hold her blue state Senate seat for decades.  <span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of them, Lyndsey Fifield, a GOP operative, alleged that Platner pulled her out of a cab by the wrists and at another point twisted her arm behind her back before locking her in a room. Platner has denied being physical.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times, which broke the story, also reported it reviewed past text messages she sent to a confidant describing his Nazi tattoo, before it was publicly known he had one. <\/p>\n<p>The skull and crossbones tattoo on his chest resembled a Totenkopf, or \u201cdeath\u2019s head\u201d symbol that the Nazi SS used, and Platner revealed he got it while inebriated in Croatia in 2007, but has insisted he had no idea about its ties to the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Fifield accusations broke, the Wall Street Journal reported that Platner was sexting with other women while married. 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