Neither candidate has meaningfully stressed budget deficit reduction in their pitch to voters.
Election 2024
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Early voting now underway across Maine
All communities are required to offer in-person absentee voting starting Monday through Oct. 31. Municipalities are also starting to mail absentee ballots to people who have requested them.
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Quarter of Maine House races have only one major-party candidate. Here’s a map of those districts.
The number of races where Democrats and Republicans did not face off rose significantly in the pandemic election of 2020, and has stayed at almost the same level since.
Posted inElection 2024, Maine, News, Politics
From Margaret Chase Smith to Kamala Harris, on the perils of seeking the presidency
The U.S. senator from Skowhegan, perhaps best known for standing up to Joseph McCarthy in 1950, was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at a major party convention.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, News, Politics, Religion and Values
Mormon church leaders encourage civility as Trump and Harris rally religious voters
Dallin H. Oaks, the top adviser and likely successor to 100-year-old church president, encouraged congregants at the faith’s recent conference to steer clear of contention and be peacemakers in their communities ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, News, Politics
Harris is running a much bigger campaign than Trump. Will it matter?
She spends 3 times as much, employs hundreds more staff and dominates the ad war. But the race is effectively tied.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, News, Politics
Trump urges supporters to deliver victory in his return to scene of first assassination attempt
The campaign is predicting tens of thousands of people will attend what is being pitched as a ‘tribute to the American spirit.’
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, News, Politics
White House calls Trump’s false claims on disaster relief ‘poison’
A White House memo said Republicans’ claims that hurricane money was spent to house illegal immigrants was ‘bald-faced lies.’
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In first CD2 debate, Golden, Theriault both claim to be party mavericks
Golden, a Lewiston Democrat seeking a fourth term in the U.S. House, and Theriault, a first-term Republican state lawmaker from Fort Kent, took questions on key issues, including the economy, gun control and abortion.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, Politics
Donald Trump says DOJ violated its own election rules. Lawyers disagree.
Department of Justice policy advises against taking overt steps in political cases close to elections. Experts say prosecutors were following court orders in the latest Trump filing.