“While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else – the fight – to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require ...

Maine Governor Janet Mills suspended her US Senate campaign Thursday, clearing the way for progressive Graham Platner to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins in the November election.

“We are building the politics of the future,” Platner, 41, and oyster farmer and military veteran, told union workers assembled at Portland Elks Lodge while celebrating the history of organized labor.