{"id":96540,"date":"2026-07-01T08:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bret-baier-fnc-poll-shows-collins-with-3-lead-in-maine-platner-leads-with-extremely-motivated-voters\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:42:02","slug":"bret-baier-fnc-poll-shows-collins-with-3-lead-in-maine-platner-leads-with-extremely-motivated-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bret-baier-fnc-poll-shows-collins-with-3-lead-in-maine-platner-leads-with-extremely-motivated-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Bret Baier: FNC Poll Shows Collins With 3% Lead in Maine, Platner Leads With &#8220;Extremely Motivated&#8221; Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;Special Report&#8221; host Bret Baier reports on a new FOX News survey on the Maine Senate race.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BRET BAIER: A new FOX survey out indicates the Senate race in Maine is shaping up to be a very close contest. Our new poll finds Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins has a small three-percentage point lead advantage over Democrat challenger Graham Plattner among Maine-registered voters. But among voters who say they are extremely motivated to vote, Plattner leads by nine points.  We&#8217;ll have more on this race with the panel. Tonight, there is growing criticism from both sides of the aisle over newly resurfaced social media posts from a Democratic Socialist congressional candidate with repeated sympathetic references to communism and Marxist ideology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/30\/bret_baier_fnc_poll_shows_collins_with_3_lead_in_maine_platner_leads_with_extremely_motivated_voters.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Special Report&#8221; host Bret Baier reports on a new FOX News survey on the Maine Senate race. BRET BAIER: A new FOX survey out indicates the Senate race in Maine is shaping up to be a very close contest. Our new poll finds Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins has a small three-percentage point lead advantage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9088,22561,22560,4514,1146,1134,2679,26019,29169,5389,648,7363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}