{"id":74665,"date":"2026-06-09T16:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/us-primaries-2026-live-graham-platner-vies-to-overcome-scandals-in-maine-as-four-states-hold-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:59:52","slug":"us-primaries-2026-live-graham-platner-vies-to-overcome-scandals-in-maine-as-four-states-hold-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/us-primaries-2026-live-graham-platner-vies-to-overcome-scandals-in-maine-as-four-states-hold-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"US primaries 2026 live: Graham Platner vies to overcome scandals in Maine as four states hold elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls open in Maine, North Dakota, Nevada, and South Carolina; voters appear to stand by Democratic challenger Graham Platner despite string of controversies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/maine-senate-primary-graham-platner\">Maine voters weigh Platner scandals: \u2018It\u2019s not my job to judge\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Outside of Maine, three other states are holding primary elections today: South Carolina, North Dakota and Nevada.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Polls close in South Carolina at 7pm ET.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/09\/primary-election-results-maine-sc-nv-nd-midterms-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls open in Maine, North Dakota, Nevada, and South Carolina; voters appear to stand by Democratic challenger Graham Platner despite string of controversies Maine voters weigh Platner scandals: \u2018It\u2019s not my job to judge\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email Outside of Maine, three other states are holding primary elections today: South Carolina, &#8230; <a title=\"US primaries 2026 live: Graham Platner vies to overcome scandals in Maine as four states hold elections\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/us-primaries-2026-live-graham-platner-vies-to-overcome-scandals-in-maine-as-four-states-hold-elections\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US primaries 2026 live: Graham Platner vies to overcome scandals in Maine as four states hold elections\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74665","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\/74665","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=74665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}