"My life's work has prepared me for this fight and I'm ready to win,"
"This election will be a simple choice: Is Maine going to bow down or stand up. I know my answer."
"When I was a little girl growing up in Farmington, my father always said you have to stand up to bullies. You can't let them have their way or they'll never stop,"
"I don't think I could forgive myself if I didn't give everything I've got to change what's going on in a very dysfunctional government in Washington."
Janet Mills announced a campaign to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. Democratic Senate leaders recruited Mills after a high-profile confrontation with President Donald Trump over transgender athletes, which prompted retaliatory actions by the Trump administration against Maine. Mills used the confrontation in her launch advertisement and framed the race as a choice between standing up or bowing down. Mills invoked a childhood lesson about standing up to bullies and faulted Congress and Collins for failing to check Trump. A competitive Democratic primary is expected, with progressive candidates Jordan Wood and Graham Platner, the latter endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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