India, April 30 -- Maine Governor Janet Mills stepped away from her Democratic primary campaign for the US Senate on Thursday stating the straight reason that she ran out of money.

"While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else - the fight - to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources," she said in a statement released Thursday. "That is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate."

Her exit now makes it easier for Graham Platner, who is an Army and Marine veteran who later became an oyster farmer to run against Republican Senator Susan Collins in No...