Anthony Zurcher

But she is grudgingly saying this is the candidate the Democrats have picked.

And she feels like she has to support him ultimately to beat Susan Collins.

Yeah, that's going to be the challenge with trying to unseat her.

She voted to convict Donald Trump after he was impeached in 2021.

And interestingly enough, the Trump people haven't come after her for it the way they came after, say, Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican senator who just got voted out of office in that state's primary because Trump backed someone to knock him out.

I think that's an acknowledgement of the tenuous situation that Collins finds herself in in Maine.

Yeah, I got out and talked to a bunch of Maine voters, first at a Platner town hall event on Sunday night.

That's where I spoke with Kevin, the first person you'll listen to.

And then I went to a polling place in Portland and started grabbing voters who were coming out.

And these were all Platner supporters.

But you can hear in these various clips some of the trepidation, some of the concern they have.

And I will add, I do my own audio here.

I'm not an audio technician, so I apologize for the quality of some of these.

I'm a writer.

And the stuff in the news recently, that doesn't really... Yes, it concerns me.

Yeah.

And the issues that you're seeing, the stuff about his personal life, does that affect you or concern you at all going into November?

Have any of the reports that come out recently in major media that concerned you at all, the things about his past girlfriends or anything like that?

Yeah.

And, you know, there were people I talked to, some who did not want to be quoted on the record, who said they were Mills supporters, the governor.