It's now clear who Maine Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins will be running against this upcoming November.
On Tuesday, Maine Democratic House Speaker Sara Gideon overwhelmingly won her party's primary. She got 70.2 percent of the vote, defeating Betsy Sweet (23 percent), and Bre Kidman (6.8 percent), as The New York Times reports.
Former state representative Dale Crafts won an approximately 45 percent plurality in the Republican primary for Maine's Second Congressional District, which seems likely to get him the nomination.
Crafts, who was endorsed by former Maine governor Paul LePage, a conservative, is leading a three-way race that will now be determined by second-choice selections in Maine's ranked-choice voting system. Final results probably won't be known for days.
