Maine Gov. Janet Mills has launched her first negative ad in the Democratic Senate primary, escalating an increasingly bitter contest against progressive challenger Graham Platner in one of the party's top pickup opportunities of the 2026 midterms.
The ad, unveiled Tuesday, centers on comments Platner made on Reddit more than a decade ago about rape and sexual assault. In the spot, several women watch fragments of the posts on a tablet and react on camera. One woman says the comments are "disgusting," while another asks, "we blame the victim?"
