{"id":695010,"date":"2026-06-10T05:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695010\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:36:07","slug":"maine-senate-primary-election-live-results-graham-platner-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695010\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Senate primary election live results: Graham Platner runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XHDF4V5SG5BTBEGXUSFEECJMHE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Liberal upstart Graham Platner won Maine\u2019s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday night, defeating Maine Gov. Janet Mills weeks after the more establishment-backed pick ended her campaign.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"C6K4FXBFYVFK5B7UTHILW46IAE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Associated Press called the race soon after polls in Maine closed at 8 p.m., where voters in the state are not only weighing in on one of the nation\u2019s most significant Senate races but also on a comeback attempt for a controversial former governor and a contest to decide the next governor that features several famous names. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liberal upstart Graham Platner won Maine\u2019s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday night, defeating Maine Gov. Janet Mills weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-695010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}