Joe Biden polled better than President Trump with Maine voters, but early returns showed the incumbent leading until 11 p.m.
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Coronavirus, economy topped list of Mainers’ concerns heading into elections
With COVID-19 surging in Maine, the majority of local participants in The Associated Press’s national survey said the virus was ‘not at all under control’ in the U.S. and strongly disapproved of President Trump’s handling of the pandemic.
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Joe Biden wins Wisconsin and Michigan to get 1 state closer to the White House
The former vice president says he expects to win the election, even as President Trump prepares lawsuits in three states and requests a recount in Wisconsin.
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Election Day voting opens with some lines, scattered glitches and ample anxiety across the nation
Americans lined up for a long election season’s final day of voting Tuesday, breezing through cavernous facilities in some cities and waiting by the hundreds in others, and contending with only few scattered glitches in the first hours of Election Day. Nearly 100 million people had already cast ballots as voting got underway, a stunning […]
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Election Day shadowed by threats of legal challenges
President Donald Trump says he’s planning an aggressive legal strategy to try prevent Pennsylvania from counting mailed ballots that are received in the three days after the election
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‘Vote and get home’: Anxious voters say on Election Day
Americans lining up to vote on Election Day are exhausted from constant crises, on edge amid volatile political divisions and anxious about what’s to come.
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Suspicious robocall campaign warning people to ‘stay home’ spooks voters nationwide
The torrent of calls illustrated the wide array of technologies that voters say are being used to convince and confuse them in the closing days of a dizzying presidential campaign.
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Live Updates: Donald Trump wins Texas
The latest on Election Day around the U.S.
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Trump threatens legal action, Biden goes on offense as bitter campaign concludes
While the president airs his grievances at rallies and tweets about ‘violence in the streets,’ his challenger says, ‘We’re done with the chaos.’
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Max Linn calls Nirav Shah a ‘death doctor’ and Janet Mills a ‘psychopath’
Independent U.S. Senate hopeful lashes out in campaign’s final days against those he thinks are stifling freedom with rules to thwart COVID-19.