LEWISTON — Guns and hot dogs are on Donald Trump Jr.’s agenda as the Republican presidential candidate’s eldest son makes a campaign swing through the area Tuesday. Hoping to boost his father’s fading chances, Trump plans to pitch the GOP White House hopeful at stops in Gray and Auburn before capping his trip with lunch […]
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Donald Trump says not to believe polls because ‘we are winning’
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Election Day just 15 days off, Donald Trump fought to preserve his narrow path to the presidency in must-win Florida on Monday. Hillary Clinton worked to slam the door on her Republican opponent in New Hampshire. Trump’s team concedes both publicly and privately that his electoral map is becoming bleak. And […]
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Sen. John Patrick accuses 2 GOP colleagues of ‘fraud’
AUGUSTA — A Democratic state senator asked Senate President Mike Thibodeau on Monday to convene a panel to investigate “potential fraud and misuse” of legislative travel reimbursements by two Republican senators. The request from Sen. John Patrick, D-Rumford, came 15 days before the November election in which Democrats are mounting a strong challenge to take back the […]
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Maine municipalities mull marijuana moratoriums
PORTLAND — Several municipalities across Maine have moved to enact moratoriums on marijuana social clubs and retailers in anticipation of the passage of referendum Question 1 on the November ballot. The Portland Press Herald reports that the ballot measure would legalize the recreational use of marijuana for adults over the age of 21 if it’s […]
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Saco legislative candidate arrested on domestic violence charges
AUGUSTA — Mark Bedell of Saco, a Republican candidate for the Maine House of Representatives, was arrested Sunday on a felony Class B charge of aggravated assault, according to an intake officer at the York County Jail. The officer did not have specifics about the arrest but said Bedell is being held without bail and […]
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Battleground states heat up
Trump’s team concedes both publicly and privately that his electoral map is bleak. And GOP leaders are growing increasingly worried that his weak standing jeopardizes vulnerable Republican Senate candidates in battlegrounds like Florida, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. The New York billionaire on Monday lashed out at the media, a regular target of his struggling campaign: […]
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Hacked emails show Hillary Clinton aides suggested email jokes
WASHINGTON — Hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton’s top campaign official show her aides considered inserting jokes about her private email server into her speeches at several events — and at least one joke made it into her remarks. “I love it,” she told a dinner in Iowa on August 14, 2015, […]
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Democrats accuse GOP candidates of dodging debates
The tiny town of St. Francis at the juncture of two rivers on Maine’s northern border seems far removed from the state’s partisan clashes — but it’s not. When Democrat Troy Jackson of Allagash spotted his Republican opponent for the 1st District state Senate seat getting out of his car there recently, he hustled to […]
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Pandemic of election fraud is not proven
There is a universal truth that just because you believe something doesn’t make it true. And, just as accurately, just because someone says something doesn’t make it true. Let’s walk back to the fall of 2011, when Mainers were battling over the citizen’s initiative to repeal a recently enacted law requiring voters to register at […]
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New poll shows Hillary Clinton up in Maine
A new poll by the Maine People’s Resource Center gives Hillary Clinton a solid statewide lead, but only slightly up in the 2nd Congressional District, where one electoral vote is at stake. The poll, based on phone calls to 890 likely votes, pegged Clinton’s overall lead in Maine at 42-36 in a four-person race or […]