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Graham Platner, the populist Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, is in a virtual dead heat in a crucial Senate showdown with longtime Republican Sen.Susan Collins, according to a new poll.Platner, the embattled candidate who has been facing a slew of controversies, stands at 49% support among likely voters questioned in a New York Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena poll released on Monday, with Collins at 47%, and 3% of respondents undecided or refusing to answer.
Platner's two-point edge is within the survey's sampling error, meaning the contest is virtually tied.Collins, a moderate Republican who at times votes against President Donald Trump's agenda, is running for a sixth six-year term in the Senate.The high-profile and likely combustible and expensive race is among a handful that will determine if the GOP holds onto its slim Senate majority in November's midterm elections.Republicans currently control the chamber 53-47 and flipping the Senate seat in left-leaning Maine is a key part of the Democrats' path to retake the majority.GAME ON IN KEY SENATE RACE AS PLATNER CAPTURES DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONPlatner, a military combat veteran and oyster farmer who is backed by progressive champions Sens.
Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Rep.Ro Khanna of California, earlier this month easily defeated two longshot rivals in Maine's Democratic Senate primary.Platner, who advocates an economically populist agenda as he takes aim at corporate influences and advocates for the working class, also topped two-term Democratic Gov.
Janet Mills in the primary.The governor's name remained on the ballot even though Mills, who had been backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats' campaign arm, suspended her bid this spring after significantly trailing Platner in fundraising and polling.Platner's victory also came as he was facing one of the roughest stretches of his bid for the U.S.
Senate.He was playing defense the past co...