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Janet’s Late Pingree Endorsement Did No Favors For Hannah – Who Latest Polls Show Losing Big-time To The Shah Of Maine

Ted CohenBy Ted CohenMay 20, 2026Updated:May 20, 202610 Comments2 Mins Read1K Views
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Hannah Pingree, the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME-CD1), Hannah Pingree leads Governor Mills' "Office of Policy Innovation and the Future"
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Nirav Shah shows a lead far beyond margin of error in five polls published May 19th by the New York Times.

With early Democrat voting already under way in Maine’s gubernatorial primary the incumbent’s late endorsement of Hannah Pingree is of no consequential value.

Judging by five polls posted May 19 by the NYT, nothing can save Hannah before the June 9 election, not even a failed governor and ex-boss.

Nirav Shah leads the field – including Pingree – in all five polls of Democrat primary candidates hoping to succeed Janet Mills.

Mills, the two-term-limited Democrat governor and vanquished U.S. Senate-hopeful, put off the endorsement until it really didn’t matter – if it ever mattered at all.

Where was Janet when Pingree really could have used her, like maybe a year ago, when Mills had yet to crash and burn as a Senate candidate, unmasking her impotency as a still-relevant Maine politician?

On the other hand, Pingree may have preferred that the endorsement come as it did – late in the campaign.

Or maybe never, since all it really does is bring more attention to Janet’s disastrous eight-yeat administration.

After all, an endorsement by a governor up to her eyeballs in billion-dollar government scandals may actually damage Pingree’s brand.

Pingree, the daughter of Democrat U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, announced her bid for governor 12 months ago.

So for 11 months as she tried to plant a flag before several other primary candidates began their campaigns Janet Mills was nowhere to be found.

All the stranger, Pingree worked for Mills as head of “policy innovation,” an alleged job she held six years before resigning to go for the corner office.

So from all appearances they were blood sisters.

Five polls of the first round of ranked-choice voting published May 19th by the New York Times all give Shah a clear lead over the field.

GQR gives Shah a 12-point lead over Pingree, placing her second in the field.

Schoen Cooperman shows her in fourth place, 14 points down from Shah, behind Angus King III and Shenna Bellows.

In three of the five polls, those by Impact Research, UNH and Hart Research, Pingree doesn’t even register.

Impact has Troy Jackson in second place, trailing Shah by 13 points.

UNH shows Bellows in second, six points behind leader Shah, while Hart shows Shah 22 points over second-place King.

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Dr. Ed
Dr. Ed
20 days ago

Could both Pingrees managed to lose this year?

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Gardiner Schneider
Gardiner Schneider
20 days ago

Why would anyone vote for Shah for anything? As a ‘Nam era U S Navy vet I follow things that affect vets. Shah was involved in failing to accurately make a diagnosis of Legionnaire’s Disease in a large Vet facility in the Mid West. I Have read that large number of vets died of Legionnaire’s Disease as the result of his errors. The local Soros owned Maine media may not give that coverage, as Shah is a democrat but I would expect better from the Maine Wire.
Read the Maine Monitor, : June 7, 2019

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Louisewoods
Louisewoods
20 days ago

Shah is a loser and so is Pingree .
Maine doesn’t need either one of them .
Losers !

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Kafir2022
Kafir2022
20 days ago

Shah was Maine’s Mengele during the fake Covid scamdemic. He should be in prison let alone ANYWHERE NEAR the Blaine House!

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Miss Nomer
Miss Nomer
20 days ago

Dr. Shah Nah Nah should be in jail for telling Maine’s pregnant women, it was safe for them and their baby, to take the c19 vax….and made TV ads that pushed that heinous lie. He is a murderer plain and simple.

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chacha
chacha
20 days ago

Mills never did endorse Bellows. She also never endorsed Platner when she *suspended* (but never WITHDREW from) the (D) Senate Primary.
Now that Platner is in the doghouse, look for Mills to reinstate her campaign. I told everyone that we hadn’t heard the last of Mills!
She’s BACK!

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bobhickok
bobhickok
19 days ago

Unemployable Janet needs a government job after she leaves the Blain House.

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ebp184
ebp184
19 days ago

Unfortunately, Nirav Shah is a bad choice for governor. As Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control during the Covid-19 plandemic, he was ultimately responsible for misusing the PCR test at high replication numbers to manufacture fraudulent positive PCR test results, thus making it appear that Maine had more people with the Covid-19 sickness. This allowed Janet Mills to implement an executive order which closed down many businesses; put people out of work; and, hurt the state economically.

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The Diamond
The Diamond
19 days ago

Oh. Gee. Thank you Auntie Janet….. We have a couple of your stainless steel straws at the house. I could mail them. 

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SMarkB
SMarkB
17 days ago

Imagine the Shah of Maine at the Helm. The architect of the dictatorial unnecessary destructive Covid lock down. The only beneficiary of the lock down was the democrupt party. Creating even more indoctrinated low IQ voters.

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