Poll: GOP Candidate Leads Key Senate Race
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Republican Senator Susan Collins is leading Graham Platner in the Maine Senate Race.
A Fox News poll found Collins at 50% with Platner trailing at 47%.
Fox News (Beacon/Shaw) poll | 6/23-6/27
US Senate Maine 2026
🟥Susan Collins 50% (incumbent)
🟦Graham Platner 47% pic.twitter.com/kphr1sxJhD— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) June 30, 2026
The Maine Senate race is shaping up to be a close contest.
While majorities have concerns about both major party candidates, the worries about Democratic candidate Graham Platner are more intense. That’s according to a Fox News statewide poll that also suggests voter motivation is helping keep the race competitive.
The new poll finds Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins has a small three percentage-point advantage, receiving 50% to Platner’s 47% among Maine registered voters.
But among the two-thirds of voters who say they are extremely motivated to vote, Platner leads by 9 points, 53-44%.
The poll also found Collins is doing better with her voting base than Platner.
93% of Republicans are backing Collins, while 86% of Democrats are backing Platner.
97% of MAGA Republicans back Collins, and 82% of non-MAGA republicans back her.
Collins also leads Platner among military veterans.
He argued the race could come down to whether voters overlook allegations surrounding Platner in favor of partisan loyalty. Collins performs best with men, voters without a college degree, gun-owning households, and rural voters. Platner leads among women, college graduates, suburban voters, and moderates, although the poll found he is running behind former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 performance with those groups.
Even though Collins is known as a moderate Republican, she has locked down her own party. The poll shows she has 97 percent of MAGA Republicans behind her and 82 percent of non-MAGA Republicans.
She is actually doing a bit better holding her base than Platner is. Overall, 93 percent of Republicans are backing Collins, compared to 86 percent of Democrats for Platner. As for independents, they are basically a coin flip, with Platner up by just two points — 47 percent to 45 percent.
Although Platner is a military veteran, Collins leads him by 18 points among military voters. Around eight in ten supporters of both Collins and Platner said they have made up their minds, while roughly two in ten said they could still change whom they vote for.
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