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The vice president's $1 million fundraising haul in September signals support, but a deluge of spending from outside groups and an opponent who defies political norms complicates that calculation.
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Record-setting turnout includes Republican voters, who appear to be responding to former president Trump’s pivot from trashing early voting to encouraging it.
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Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea 'Shaye' Moss, won a $148 million judgment over Giuliani’s false fraud claims against them related to the 2020 presidential election.
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Stealing political signs can be penalized with fines from $250 to $1000 and up to 6 months in jail.
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They did so by traveling out of state or by having prescription abortion pills mailed to them, according to the #WeCount report from the Society of Family Planning, which advocates for abortion access.
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Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, is facing a tough election of her own, but is raising and funneling hundreds of thousands into other key races that could determine which party controls the Maine House.
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Here's a look at the races attracting the most outside spending in each chamber.
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Shenna Bellows is advising voters to return their ballots via drop boxes or in-person in order to give themselves greater certainty that their ballot will be received and to lighten the load on the Postal Service.
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Most of the spending is going into Senate races.
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Pennsylvania has the biggest Jewish population of any swing state, and any shift could have enormous implications in a state decided by narrow margins the past 2 presidential elections.
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Social Security faces a looming funding crisis in an aging country, with trustees most recently predicting that the retirement and disability program’s trust fund will become insolvent in 2035.
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Mark Dion kicked off Monday night's City Council meeting by apologizing for his vote last month, which he called 'a betrayal' of the city's Jewish community.
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The Harris-Walz campaign did not provide a reason for canceling the visit Tuesday, which it announced last week.
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Maine’s other municipalities use voting tabulation devices, which studies have shown are faster and more accurate.
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The Republican nominee was campaigning in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where the golfing legend was born in 1929.
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While partisan battles over voting rules have long been part of presidential campaigns, election litigation has soared in recent years.
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Like other places in Maine and around the country, voters here list the economy, cost of living and taxes as among their biggest concerns.
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The suburb of Bangor is known for its good schools and quieter pace of life, but its demographics have been changing in recent years, bringing with it a tension that lives mostly beneath the surface.
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Unenrolled voters outnumber both Democrats and Republicans in Berwick, while Hampden voters backed Trump in 2016 but Biden in 2020.
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With Election Day nearing and the Democrats within a few seats of the majority, some see a chance to try to fix what’s broken by taking up a reform push they started after winning the majority six years ago – but clearly never finished.
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The vast majority of U.S. elections have involved a peaceful and orderly transfer of power.
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Obama has assumed a distinct tone that few others could pull off, leaning on his experience, credibility and popularity, speaking in increasingly direct terms.
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When the mic came back on, he returned to his standby approach, deliberately mispronouncing Kamala Harris's name and repeating lies about her record.
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Political operatives say it is virtually impossible to quantify how much sexism or unconscious bias will factor into the outcome in November, in part because voters who hold those views are often reluctant to express them.
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Bond proposals in South Portland, Kittery and Gray-New Gloucester would spend millions to bring artificial turf fields to their schools. District leaders say the grass fields are just in too bad shape to keep up with demand.
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Maine schools often turn to taxpayers for school construction or renovation funding because of the state's limited resources. But voters in those communities may not be open to picking up these big costs.
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As the campaign gets increasingly personal, the nominees accuse each other of misleading workers – and having low energy on the campaign trail.
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It was the second time in a week that one of his events was interrupted.
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The word 'Jezebel' was used during slavery and throughout U.S. history to describe Black women, casting them as overtly sexual and untrustworthy.
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Three takeaways from Friday's roundtable discussion among local food industry professionals and lawmakers, organized by the James Beard Foundation.
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The independent says the Republican candidate's characterization of the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol as 'love and peace' are inaccurate. Sen. Susan Collins recalls the chaos and tumult of that day nearly 4 years ago.
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House Republicans dismissed the report as misleading and outdated, criticizing Democrats for what they characterized as their lack of oversight of the Biden administration.
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A vast, shadow machinery built by partisans often under nonpartisan banners is working to provide the final nudge that delivers the White House by mobilizing unlikely voters in about seven states.
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Democratic incumbent Chellie Pingree spars with Republican Ronald Russell and independent Ethan Alcorn over the causes of and solutions to the housing crisis.
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MaineHealth, the city's biggest employer, has donated $25,000 to support efforts to change the rule requiring employers to pay workers at least 1.5 times the minimum wage during states of emergency.
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The former president has constantly shifted his stances or offered vague, contradictory and at times nonsensical answers to questions on an issue that has become a major vulnerability for Republicans.
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McConnell made the remarks in private as part of a series of personal oral histories that he made available. The biography will be released Oct. 29, one week before Election Day.
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Billionaire Elon Musk’s super PAC is using an old-school strategy heavy on door-knocking and mail shots – but his erratic management style has caused problems.
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Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1, had expressed a desire to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris, according to his family.
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Trump’s running mate had danced around the issue since being pressed on it in a debate over 2 weeks ago.
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Musk’s contribution is part of a larger wave of fundraising hauls reported on Tuesday by several PACs, congressional campaigns and some presidential committees.
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The vice president and former president are running markedly different transition efforts to be ready for the potential responsibility of taking over the federal government.
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Early voting gives Georgians a chance to avoid the hours-long lines and delayed mail-in ballots that have marred past contests in the state.
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Kamala Harris took a calculated gamble by appearing on the conservative-leaning network in an effort to expand her audience.
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The plan rolled out by the Democrat's campaign this week is intended to support rural hospitals and emergency medical services, sectors that have struggled in Maine.
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Walz will visit Maine on Tuesday, marking her second visit to the state after a trip to Bangor and Portland last month.
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The Republican presidential nominee also falsely claimed that a 'peaceful transfer of power' occurred in 2021 when a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol to stop the affirmation of Joe Biden’s win.
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Trying out a new tactic in Western Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris ordered her aides to roll the tape on giant jumbotron screens to show clips of Donald Trump making inflammatory statements and threats.
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A Republican member of the Fulton County election board, backed by the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute, has argued that county election board members have the discretion to reject certification.
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Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, 'inflation will vanish completely.'
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As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 192,000 absentee ballots had been requested statewide.
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This year's municipal race features 11 candidates — eight of whom are vying for three Freeport Sewer District seats.
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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is using GoFundMe to rally its donor network around the survivors of his July assassination attempt and Hurricane Helene’s destruction.