In February, Sen. Susan Collins was prescient when she defended her vote to acquit the president on impeachment, saying that the president “learned … a pretty big lesson” from being impeached. What Trump learned was that, while he destroys the norms of our democracy, Sens. Collins and Lindsey Graham and other Republican senators will stand […]

After one of the most scrutinized elections in American history, some – not all – supporters of Donald Trump are challenging the final outcome of the Electoral College vote as well as the popular vote. This is after a thorough and heavily observed polling process in which both Democrats and Republicans monitored the actual counting […]

Having failed in the courts to overturn the election, President Trump and his legal team’s political nuclear option – get Republican-controlled state legislatures to ignore the vote for President-elect Joe Biden and send Trump’s slate of electors to the Electoral College instead – is also failing. Despite potential wiggle room for the Trump campaign under […]

Once again, the Press Herald Editorial crew has done a disservice to its subscribers with Tuesday’s (Nov. 24) Our View: “Republicans need to face facts on election” (Page A10). This after a four-year crusade by Democrats with false charges of Russian collusion, impeachment charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, as well as […]

Who is defending our democracy? I clearly see the thousands of voters who cast their ballots despite the risks of COVID-19; they certainly qualify. They did their part. The hardworking poll workers and ballot counters who took on the monumental task of carefully counting a record number of ballots given the challenges of the pandemic […]

There’s an old expression, “on his watch,” that we use to ascribe responsibility to persons in charge. On Sept. 11, 2001, four aircraft were hijacked by Saudi terrorists and crashed into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing 2,977 people – an intelligence failure that occurred on George W. Bush’s watch, though […]

I truly understand President Trump’s right to call for recounts, etc. in the states with close results. I don’t understand how a president of the USA can cast doubts on the election process. When he got elected, I read his book (“The Art of the Deal”) to try to understand his philosophy. I understand that […]

While President Trump detests being labeled “a loser,” the time has come to more accurately describe him, vis-a-vis his handling of the COVID-19 virus pandemic, as a “mass murderer.” Because of his failure to publicly acknowledge the severity of the disease, his failure to mount a coordinated federal response, his insistence that the pandemic is […]