Maine Governor Janet Mills directly criticized Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner on his electability during an event in Presque Isle, Maine, on February 27, 2026, stating GOP ads would make mincemeat of him, according to a Bangor Daily News article shared by Alex Seitz-Wald on X at 8:15-8:45 PM UTC. Mills' comments targeted Platner's vulnerability against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins amid concerns from Democratic voters tired of losses, as reported in the Bangor Daily News on February 27 within the 29-minute reporting window ending at 8:45 PM UTC. The remarks represent her most direct attack on Platner to date. Separately, Hal Britz highlighted on X during the same window that several top Pentagon officials attended elite schools, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Princeton and Harvard, Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg at Princeton, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll with a Yale law degree, and Navy Secretary John Phelan with an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree from the London School of Economics.
