Speaking on Fox News on Monday morning, the president said Maine’s Republican senator is “very badly hurt,” by suggesting whomever wins the presidential election on Nov. 3 should decide on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement
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Judge hears testimony in lawsuit aiming to change Maine’s absentee ballot rules
The lawsuit seeks to have all absentee ballots count as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
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Silver Linings: Older voters say country on wrong track
AARP poll shows U.S. Senate candidates Susan Collins and Sara Gideon in virtual tie.
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Evangelicals at base of Trump hopes for Pennsylvania repeat
In 2016, they gave him a 44,000-vote margin of victory in the state.
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Susan Collins opposes replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg before November
Maine’s senior senator says the Senate may begin the process of reviewing President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but a vote shouldn’t take place before the election.
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Walmart, Amazon among donors to QAnon-promoting lawmaker
According to a media watchdog site, 24 congressional candidates on the November ballot have supported or promoted the conspiracy theory.
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Trump to Senate: Vote ‘without delay’ on my high court pick
Among the Republican senators to watch are Susan Collins, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of women’s rights, dies at 87
Ginsburg spent her final years on the bench as the unquestioned leader of the court’s liberal wing and became something of a rock star to her admirers, particularly young women.
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Trump and Biden hit unlikely battleground state of Minnesota
Donald Trump almost won Minnesota in 2016 and sees it as a state he might peel away from Democrat Joe Biden in November.
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Assange lawyer says Trump offered a deal to avoid extradition in exchange for documents
The alleged “win-win” deal by President Donald Trump would allow Assange to avoid extradition to the U.S. if he revealed the source of a leak of documents from the Democratic Party ahead of the 2016 election.