How outlets cover Graham Platner · May 7, 2026
Susan Collins and Graham Platner Release Competing Senate Ads
Collins and Platner released contrasting ads in Maine’s Senate race. Center coverage focuses on their opposing messages, while right-leaning outlets also tie the contest to Senate control and Sanders’s support for Platner.
Lead article · The New York Times · CENTERPlatner and Collins begin their duel in the Maine Senate raceCommunity verdict
8 VOTESCollins and Platner released contrasting ads in Maine’s Senate race. Platner’s ad criticizes Collins’s record, while Collins’s ad highlights her work for the state.
Center outlets treat the ads as opposing campaign messages, with some attention to race spending and fundraising. Right-leaning outlets split: one focuses on the dueling ads and their possible effect on Senate control, while another frames Sanders’s fundraising support for Platner as a push to shift the Senate caucus left.
Outlets by lean
4 RATEDCompare by side
Center coverage contrasts Platner’s criticism of Collins with Collins’s promotion of her record and notes race spending and fundraising.
How outlets portrayed Platner, by side
4 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, 1 critical, 0 mixed, 2 neutral. Right: 0 favorable, 1 critical, 0 mixed, 0 neutral.
When each side covered it
MAY 7Articles per day by side. MAY 7: Left 0, Center 3, Right 1.
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