Maine’s law is a compromise rooted in a tradition of gun rights that crosses the political aisle.
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Posted inElection 2024, Nation / World, Politics
Majority of swing-state voters say they fear violence if Trump loses
A poll found that two-thirds of voters in states likely to decide the election do not think Donald Trump would accept defeat.
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Posted inElection 2024, Local & State, News, Politics
Trump wins student mock election in Maine
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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Supreme Court allows Virginia to resume purge of voter registrations
A federal judge previously found the state illegally purged more than 1,600 voter registrations in the past two months.
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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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.’
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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.
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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.
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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.