"Democratic Gov. Janet Mills cited her White House confrontation with the Republican president in February as proof that she should serve in the Senate, a bid she formally announced with a campaign launch video Tuesday. "I'll stand up to Trump, just as I did in February," Mills said in a telephone interview previewing her campaign with The Associated Press on Sunday."
"Mills says she's running to help mount a broader resistance to Trump, who she complained has cut food and health care aid for children and low-income Americans in the enormous tax breaks and spending cuts bill enacted in July. She said she's also running to oust five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who voted for the measure. "I think the moment demands a lot more than we're seeing from Susan Collins," Mills said in the interview."
Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, announced a campaign for the U.S. Senate to unseat five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Mills points to a February confrontation with President Trump over an executive order barring transgender athletes and Maine's legal challenge as evidence of standing up to Trump. She criticizes recent tax and spending legislation for cutting food and health care aid to children and low-income Americans and faults Collins for voting for the measure. Mills frames the campaign as part of a broader resistance to Trump and as a bid to defend Maine interests while Democrats seek a Senate majority.
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