This story was produced as part of a partnership with NOTUS and the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is warning Maine Gov. Janet Mills to keep out of the state’s midterm Senate race, while backing Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and veteran who says on his website that he is aiming to flip the seat “for the working Mainers being priced out of our homes.”

“I have nothing against Janet Mills, but I think right now, Susan Collins is absolutely beatable,” Sanders told NOTUS. “She can be beaten, and I think it would be a really sad state of affairs to have to spend millions of dollars on a divisive primary. We should be focusing on beating Susan Collins, and Platner can do that.”

His comment followed an earlier tweet in the day where he boost

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