Augusta City Center and Cony High School, two of the city’s four polling places, will be closed to all nonelection business on Nov. 3.
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Local, statewide and national political news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Nation & World, Politics
Record avalanche of early votes nationwide transforms election
There have been extraordinary lines and hourslong wait times in Georgia, Texas and North Carolina as they’ve opened in-person early voting.
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Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Trump attacks Collins over expected vote on Supreme Court nominee
The president declares that Maine’s senior senator, a fellow Republican fighting for her political life, is ‘not worth the work.’
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Maine, News, Politics
How do I fill out my ranked-choice ballot?
Here’s what you need to know about ranked-choice voting, which only Maine will use in the presidential election.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Maine, News, Politics
Gideon raked in $39 million for Senate race in last 3 months
The Democratic candidate raised nearly five times as much as the $8 million contributed to Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Maine, News, Politics
Collins, Gideon clash over Trump, health care in heated debate
It was the third debate for Republican Sen. Susan Collins, Democrat Sara Gideon, and independents Max Linn and Lisa Savage in Maine’s closely watched Senate race.
Posted inElection 2020, Politics
Trump and Biden go at it – from a distance – in dueling town halls
Biden denounces the White House’s handling of the pandemic while the president insists that the nation is turning the corner on the virus, even as his own battle with the disease takes center stage.
Posted inElection 2020, Maine
First debate between U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, challenger Dale Crafts a civil event
Maine’s 2nd District congressional candidates sparred gently in a televised exchange, agreed on the need to end partisan warfare but disagreed on health care.
Posted inElection 2020, Lewiston-Auburn, Politics
‘Trump House’ in Lewiston becoming a big draw
At Brandon Gordon’s Pond Road home, there is no mistaking which presidential candidate he prefers.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
C-SPAN suspends political editor Steve Scully after he admits lying about Twitter hack
Scully said he was frustrated by Trump’s comments and several weeks of criticism on social media and conservative news outlets about his role as moderator, including attacks directed at his family.