Maine students have predicted the winner of every presidential election since 2008, but they missed the mark in the 2020 U.S. Senate race by voting against Republican incumbent Susan Collins.
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Posted inElection 2024, Local & State, Politics
Former President Clinton to stump for Harris/Walz campaign in Maine on Friday
The details of the visit have not been released, but it will be somewhere in southern Maine.
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Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, Politics
Harris urges voters to reject Trump’s efforts to sow division and fear
Kamala Harris is urging voters to reject Donald Trump’s efforts to sow division and fear, declaring, ‘It doesn’t have to be this way.’
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, Politics
Harris promises to ‘put country above party and above self’ in closing argument against Trump
Kamala Harris aimed to make a broader case for why voters should reject Donald Trump and consider what she offers, and encouraged the crowd to visualize their divergent futures hanging in the balance on Election Day.
Posted inElection 2024, Lewiston-Auburn
Gov. Janet Mills urges voters in Lewiston to ‘reject the politics of despair’
Mills touts Kamala Harris and hits Donald Trump during a Tuesday campaign stop in Lewiston.
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First presidential election since Jan. 6 attack will test Congress’ new guardrails
After Jan. 6, Congress set out to shore up the the peaceful transfer of presidential power and prevent a repeat of the unprecedented period when Donald Trump refused to concede defeat to Joe Biden.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, News, Politics
Trump says his New York rally marked by crude and racist insults ‘was a lovefest’
Kamala Harris’ campaign and many who watched have criticized the racist comments targeting Latinos, Black people, Jews and Palestinians, along with sexist insults directed at Harris and others.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, News, Politics
Steve Bannon spends first day out of prison stumping for Trump
The former aide says 4 months in prison left him feeling ’empowered.’
Posted inElection 2024, Local & State, News, Politics
Sen. King debates Republican, Democratic challengers
The independent seeking his third term has run a quiet campaign so far against Republican Demi Kouzounas and Democrat David Costello, as well as independent Jason Cherry, who did not participate in Monday’s debate.
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Voting by mail? Postal Service says mail your ballot by Tuesday
The recommendation comes as election officials around the country have raised concerns about the Postal Service’s ability to handle a large amount of election mail this year.