LEWISTON — For Molly Ryan, president of the Bates Republicans, these are difficult days. With Donald Trump leading the GOP ticket in the Nov. 8 election, she said, many young people on her side of the political divide can’t stomach the party’s presidential nominee. “It’s depressing,” Ryan said. “It’s negative.” Young Democrats, on the other hand, […]
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Mike Pence accuses media of doing Hillary Clinton’s work
WASHINGTON — Coverage of the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT): Pence says media fighting for Clinton Updated 5:23 p.m.: Mike Pence is joining Donald Trump in relentlessly hammering the national media coverage of the presidential race. The Republican vice presidential candidate told supporters Tuesday in Wilmington, North Carolina, that the election is not “exactly […]
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Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump condemn Republican Party office firebombing
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Authorities are investigating after a local Republican Party office in North Carolina was vandalized and set on fire in what a state GOP official called an act of “political terrorism.” A bottle filled with flammable liquid was thrown through the window of the Orange County Republican Party headquarters overnight, damaging the interior […]
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Donald Trump says GOP is ‘naive’ about voter fraud
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump lashed out on Monday at Republicans who have tried to tone down his rhetoric about election fraud, calling his own party’s leaders “so naive” and claiming without evidence that large-scale voter fraud is real. Trump’s claims were part a Monday morning blast of tweets that took on his party, the women […]
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Donald Trump blasts rigged system at Bangor rally
BANGOR, Maine — Amid a flood of sexual misconduct allegations threatening his campaign, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used a Saturday afternoon rally in Bangor to blast a “rigged system” of government and media pushing “lies” that he says are designed to elect Democrat Hillary Clinton. The rally at the Cross Insurance Center was Trump’s […]
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When Trump loses, what will he do?
NEW YORK — Politics is an enduring feature of human life, but political parties are mortal. This week we watched the beginning of the end of one of America’s great, illustrious parties. The Republican Party, as we knew it, is dying. The death of a party is not so unusual. Scholars divide American history into […]
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Trump’s incendiary talk drifts into some dangerous territory
WASHINGTON — The second presidential debate — bloody, muddy and raucous — was just enough to save Donald Trump’s campaign from extinction, but not enough to restore his chances of winning, barring an act of God (a medical calamity) or of Putin (a cosmically incriminating WikiLeak). That Trump crashed because of a sex-talk tape is […]
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Don’t dismiss Trump’s words
As a woman who endured 13 years of sexual assault, I was shocked, saddened, sickened, confused and even outraged by the words of Donald Trump — words that he has repeatedly tried to passively dismiss as “locker room talk.” His words hit me like a ton of bricks and caused tears to sting my eyes […]
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Video: Donald Trump campaigns in New Hampshire and Maine on Saturday
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Donald Trump promised Saturday to bring jobs “roaring back” to northern New England and other parts of the country, while rejecting allegations he engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior. Trump made campaign stops in Bangor, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Saturday, appearing before boisterous and defiant crowds voicing their rejection of […]
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Words do matter
The recent diatribe surrounding the filthy, moronic and abhorrent words that seem to pour out of the mouths of the political candidates is not “only words.” It is more than that — it is crazy and shows how shallow American culture has become. Last time I checked, words are how most humans communicate. Please, if […]