A campaign funded largely by the GOP submitted petitions with 72,000 voter signatures in an attempt to prevent ranked-choice voting from being used in presidential elections in Maine.
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Sheats announces bid for re-election to Maine House
AUBURN — State Rep. Bettyann Sheats, D-Auburn, has announced her candidacy for re-election to House District 64, which includes Minot and northern parts of Auburn. Sheats is in her second term in the Legislature where she sits on the Transportation Committee. She has sponsored several bills related to veteran issues, social justice and transportation. “My […]
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Republican senator defends Trump’s Tulsa rally as health official warns it’s ‘a huge risk factor’
Novel coronavirus cases have set new daily records in Oklahoma in recent days.
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Trump delays Tulsa rally amid criticism over Juneteenth date
The president said African American supporters asked him not to hold the event on June 19, the observance of the end of slavery in the United States.
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Protests in Trump country test his hold in rural white areas
Hundreds of protests over black injustice have cropped up in small cities across the upper Midwest and Rust Belt, many with their own lingering current of white supremacy and racial unrest.
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Tulsa rally attendees must agree not to hold Trump campaign liable for infection
The rally, rescheduled to avoid a conflict with the day seen as marking the end of slavery in America, comes with the nation surpassing 2 million confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus.
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Senate panel authorizes subpoenas in new Russia probe
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the committee chairman, says the panel will be looking at how the Justice Department went ‘so off the rails’ as it investigated Trump and his campaign.
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Republicans announce Trump convention events will move to Jacksonville
President Trump’s renomination speech and other festivities will relocate from Charlotte after the original site refused to go along with demands for a large-scale event during the pandemic.
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Bennett, Crafts keep GOP 2nd Congressional District debate low-key
Eric Brakey of Auburn a no-show for Voice of the Voter.
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Legislature eyes returning while thousands complain of hardship
Despite dysfunction in the Department of Labor, House Speaker Sara Gideon has been quiet about the troubled agency.