'Spicy fallout' revealed as Senate campaign implodes

More aggressive action from Schumer, the sources said, would have been politically controversial. Insiders describe a campaign that failed to really launch, and in the end met dire financial straits.Mills, who gained national notoriety after she publicly stood up to Trump for threatening funding to her state, specifically cited a lack of funds as her reason for suspending the campaign.A Democratic operative with ties to the race told us that Mills 'needed significant money' but 'didn’t have it,' wrote Neukam. As for why Schumer or the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee didn't intervene to help fund Mills through the primary, the operative said, “You need to show life if you want a life boat.”With Mills out of the race, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins is Graham Platner, a harbormaster and oyster farmer who is running as a progressive political outsider and was already beating Mills in most primary polls. Democratic leaders who may have been skeptical of his campaign are now falling in line behind him.