Governor Janet Mills

Senate.

And people have been urging me for months now, and I've thought it over and said, I got to do this thing.

Because every day the news is worse and worse.

It's like a roller coaster ride and it's churning my stomach.

And I'm not the kind of person who can sit idly by and let stuff like that happen.

I'm a GSD person, you know, get stuff done.

And that's why I want to go to the U.S.

Senate.

Well, it took me some time to think it over.

And I kept sort of waiting for something better to happen, to see things turn around a little bit, to see the Congress get some backbone, see the Congress step up to him.

But then, I mean, Susan Collins was a pivotal vote in advancing the so-called Big Beautiful Bill just a short time ago.

And that bill is devastating to Maine people.

It takes away health care for tens and tens of thousands of people in Maine and extends the tax benefits, tax credits for billionaires, but then takes food out of the mouths of children.

How do you do that?

How do you live with that?

And then she voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is taking away our public health infrastructure, who's threatening to take away vaccines, life-saving vaccines for children.

And I'm here trying to save all of that as governor of the state of Maine, working with Maura Healey and other governors of the Northeast Coalition to preserve our public health infrastructure and to preserve access to vaccines.

And so everything that's going on in Washington is to the opposite effect.

She voted for Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education.

Linda McMahon, who's tearing apart the Department of Education and threatening public education all across this country.