How outlets cover Graham Platner · Mar 17 – Mar 19, 2026
Graham Platner Releases Ads Responding to Janet Mills’ Criticism
Platner released response ads after Mills criticized his past online comments. Center outlets also examine Mills’s appeal to women voters, while the right-leaning account emphasizes a more negative turn in the primary.
Lead article · ABC News · CENTERMills and Platner spar over attack ad in intensification of Maine primary to face Susan CollinsCommunity verdict
8 VOTESOutlets agree Janet Mills criticized Graham Platner over old online comments in an ad, and Platner answered with ads of his own.
Center outlets describe the dispute through Mills’s ad and Platner’s response, with some attention to her appeal to women voters and the candidates’ primary contest. Right-leaning outlets present his response ad and apology as part of a more negative turn in the primary.
Outlets by lean
11 RATEDCompare by side
Center outlets cover Mills’s criticism of Platner’s old posts and his response, with Maine Public focusing on Mills’s effort to reach women voters.
How outlets portrayed Platner, by side
17 ARTICLESEach article counts once, however many sites carried it. Sides are each outlet’s published lean. How portrayal is read
Left: 0 favorable, 0 critical, 0 mixed, 0 neutral. Center: 0 favorable, 5 critical, 0 mixed, 9 neutral. Right: 0 favorable, 3 critical, 0 mixed, 0 neutral.
When each side covered it
MAR 17 – 19Articles per day by side. MAR 17: Left 0, Center 14, Right 3. MAR 18: Left 0, Center 3, Right 0. MAR 19: Left 0, Center 1, Right 0.
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