The four-term Republican senator was once among the most popular in the country. Now she’s the least and her latest bid for re-election has her in an unfamiliar role: underdog.
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Maine Republicans flout CDC guidelines at campaign events
Two recent events, one in Bangor, another in Saco, show attendees indoors, not wearing masks and not social distancing.
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Libertarian presidential hopeful seeks to turn USA into ‘one giant Switzerland’
Jo Jorgensen told a Lewiston crowd Saturday that American troops need to ‘come home’ from around the world.
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N. Carolina Senate race upended by sexting, virus diagnosis
The race is the nation’s most expensive Senate campaign and considered key to determining the power balance in the chamber.
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Republicans face reckoning over Trump’s virus strategy, diagnosis
Tests came back positive Friday for Republican Party Chair Ronna McDaniel, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and North Carolina’s Sen. Thom Tillis, who’s running for re-election.
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Five takeaways: Susan Collins talks Trump, Supreme Court nominee in Waterville
The U.S. Senator stopped by for a downtown tour, but answered questions on national issues as well.
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Former U.S. Sen. Bill Cohen sees something of himself in Jared Golden
Cohen, a Republican, said the freshman Democratic congressman has a streak of independence that marks Maine’s best politicians.
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Pelosi expects to reach stimulus deal, saying Trump diagnosis ‘changes the dynamic’
The House speaker is in the midst of days of increasingly intense negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin over a new stimulus bill that would have a pricetag of $1.6 trillion to $2.2 trillion.
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Lewiston city clerk urges absentee voters to check mail carefully
The clerk’s office said there is some concern that absentee ballots will be mistaken for other campaign literature and mistakenly thrown away.
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Trump’s diagnosis rocks final stage of presidential campaign
An election year already defined by a cascade of national crises is descending further into uncharted territory.