For the first time since 1998, more than 30 seats in the Maine Legislature will go to candidates, mostly Democrats, who face no opposition in November.
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Posted inElection 2020, Nation / World, News, Politics
Trump denies downplaying virus, casts doubt on mask usage
In a televised town hall, the president is defensive but not agitated when pressed on his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Posted inElection 2020, Politics
Biden courts Latino voters in 1st trip to Florida as nominee
A poll released last week found Latinos in the state about evenly divided between President Trump and Joe Biden.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Local & State, News, Politics
Requests for absentee ballots in Maine approach 200,000
The latest numbers from Maine’s secretary of state suggest voters will cast a record number of absentee ballots in 2020.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Local & State, News, Politics
Maine’s high court hears arguments on citizen’s veto of ranked-choice voting
The supreme court heard from opposing lawyers in a case that will determine if a ranked-choice system will be used to award Maine’s four Electoral College votes in November’s presidential election.
Posted inElection 2020, Franklin, Local & State
Often-overlooked US Senate candidate highlights forgotten women in her new book
Independent Lisa Savage’s new campaign book tells the story of nine American women often left out by historians.
Posted inElection 2020, Lewiston-Auburn
Craven announces reelection bid for House seat
LEWISTON — Long-time Lewiston advocate Margaret Craven is running for reelection to House District 59. Lewiston voters first sent Craven to Augusta as a representative in 2002, and returned her five more times, for a total of four terms as representative and three terms as state senator between 2002 and the present, with one four-year […]
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Nation / World, Politics
Biden assembles legal team, anticipating court challenges in divisive 2020 election
Biden’s presidential campaign says the legal war room will work to ensure that elections are properly administered and votes are correctly counted.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation / World, News, Politics
Pending bills offer opportunities to address racial equity in Maine, commission advises
A new permanent commission set up to examine the status of racial, indigenous and tribal populations says racial equity should be a central consideration for all new laws in Maine.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Out-of-state donors fund advertising flood in Maine Senate campaign
The campaigns of both Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Sara Gideon are heavily reliant on out-of-state donors but are also spending the vast majority of their contributions outside of Maine.