{"id":72862,"date":"2026-04-30T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/governor-janet-mills-drops-maine-senate-bid-weeks-before-primary-clash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:55:01","slug":"governor-janet-mills-drops-maine-senate-bid-weeks-before-primary-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/governor-janet-mills-drops-maine-senate-bid-weeks-before-primary-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Janet Mills drops Maine Senate bid weeks before primary clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mills cites lack of funds as rival to unseat Susan Collins fuels Democratic rift under Donald Trump<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Janet Mills, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/maine\">Maine<\/a> governor, on Thursday dropped her bid for the US Senate just weeks before the Democratic primary in a race that reflected an internal party debate over how to win one of this year\u2019s most competitive Senate seats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else \u2013 the fight \u2013 to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources,\u201d Mills said in a statement. \u201cThat is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/30\/maine-governor-janet-mills-drops-senate-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mills cites lack of funds as rival to unseat Susan Collins fuels Democratic rift under Donald Trump Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Janet Mills, the Maine governor, on Thursday dropped her bid for the US Senate just weeks before the Democratic primary in a race &#8230; <a title=\"Governor Janet Mills drops Maine Senate bid weeks before primary clash\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/governor-janet-mills-drops-maine-senate-bid-weeks-before-primary-clash\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Governor Janet Mills drops Maine Senate bid weeks before primary clash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}