How outlets cover Janet Mills · Mar 23 – Mar 27, 2026
Mills and Platner Compete in Maine Democratic Senate Primary
Janet Mills and Graham Platner are competing in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary, and Mills has run an ad targeting Platner. Center coverage tracks the campaign, while right-leaning coverage focuses on claims of uneven network scrutiny.
Lead article · NPR · CENTERHoping to flip Maine, Democrats battle it out in an expensive U.S. Senate primary : NPRCommunity verdict
15 VOTESJanet Mills and Graham Platner are competing in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary, and Mills has run an ad targeting Platner.
Center outlets emphasize the candidates’ campaign tactics and the contest to challenge Susan Collins. Right-leaning outlets focus on broadcast networks’ treatment of the candidates, presenting it as evidence of a partisan double standard.
Outlets by lean
5 RATEDCompare by side
Center outlets describe Mills’s ad about Platner’s past comments alongside his responses, polling, fundraising and voter outreach.
How outlets portrayed Mills, by side
5 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: 1 favorable, 0 critical, 0 mixed, 3 neutral. Right: 0 favorable, 1 critical, 0 mixed, 0 neutral.
When each side covered it
MAR 23 – 27Articles per day by side. MAR 23: Left 0, Center 3, Right 0. MAR 24: Left 0, Center 0, Right 0. MAR 25: Left 0, Center 0, Right 1. MAR 26: Left 0, Center 2, Right 0. MAR 27: Left 0, Center 1, Right 0.
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No left-leaning outlet has covered this yet. We’ll alert you when one does.No left-leaning outlet has covered this yet. We’ll alert you when one does, and when any new outlet covers it.