Independent Sen. Angus King also voiced suspicion over the timing of Republicans’ interest in investigating Hunter Biden.
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Biddeford native, a former Google exec who advised Schwarzenegger, joins Senate race
Ross LaJeunesse, 49, enters Maine’s Democratic primary with hopes of unseating four-term incumbent Susan Collins.
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Former defense secretary Cohen: Trump committed impeachable act
William Cohen, a Republican and former U.S. senator from Maine who also served on the House Judiciary Committee that investigated President Richard Nixon, believes President Trump committed “a form of a high crime and misdemeanor.”
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Is Sen. Collins running in 2020? Not yet, officially, but you’d never know it.
Maine’s Republican senator, seen by Democrats as someone they can unseat, is widely expected to seek another term but keeps saying she will decide ‘in the fall.’
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Jared Golden favors formal impeachment inquiry to investigate President Trump
Maine’s 2nd Congressional District representative remains unsure whether the president should be impeached, but favors a fair process to figure out what Donald Trump has done.
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Middleman helped Saudi tycoon give to Obama’s second inauguration
Imaad Zuberi will plead guilty to making illegal campaign contributions to several American political candidates on behalf of foreign nationals.
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Money from away piles up in U.S. Senate race
The most recent campaign finance reports show that out-of-state donors made the vast majority of contributions of $200 or more to the campaigns of Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Sara Gideon.
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Democrats hopeful as they bring campaigns for U.S. Senate to rural Sangerville Grange
SANGERVILLE — For a few hours recently, the 115-year-old East Sangerville Grange Hall, one of those classic white clapboard New England structures, stood at the center of what may prove the most important U.S. Senate race in the nation. That mid-October Saturday night marked the first time each of the Maine Democratic Party’s Senate contenders gathered […]
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Speakers tell of sexism in politics at Skowhegan’s Margaret Chase Smith Library
During the annual meeting, a former state representative and the executive director of the League of Women Voters addressed their experiences running for office.
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Ranked-choice voting has ‘Mainementum’ as it spreads across the country
Critics say election reformers ought to take a look at alternative voting systems before endorsing the one Maine adopted.