Chris Sommerfeldt

Democratic Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner's team quietly fielded a poll Tuesday gauging the strength of people who could replace him on the ballot, as pressure mounts for him to drop out of the race.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman is going all in on AI, and playing fast-and-loose with new rules around the disclosure of AI in political communications that was signed into law by his opponent.

The progressive made it a condition of dropping out of the Maine Senate race that he get free rein to assail establishment Democrats.

Graham Platner went down fighting. Advisers told him to focus on ‘gratitude.’

Graham Platner went down swinging — even as some of his political confidants urged him not to.

Why Mamdani (probably) won’t issue more midterm endorsements

Mamdani in damage-control mode over aide’s scuttled Iran meeting

“He doesn't want to put his thumb on the scale,” said a strategist. “Anyone he wants would be toxic.”

Menin pounces on another political weakness for Mamdani

Jordain Carney, Nick Reisman and Chris Sommerfeldt The fate of the Senate majority could lie in the hands of 601 yet-to-be-chosen Maine