On abolishing ICE, eliminating the filibuster and the grade they’d give Sen. Susan Collins, the Democrats running to replace Graham Platner on the ballot gave very similar answers.
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Senate candidates make their case to replace Graham Platner in first debate
Thursday’s debate hosted by News Center Maine comes a little over a week before Democrats will hold a convention to pick a new nominee to take on Sen. Susan Collins.
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Here are the Senate candidates who have officially filed to replace Graham Platner
More than a dozen Democrats are vying for the party’s nomination at a convention later this month.
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How each Maine county is picking its delegates to the convention to replace Graham Platner
The Democratic committees in each of Maine’s 16 counties are meeting to pick delegates for the statewide convention July 25.
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8 Democratic Maine Senate hopefuls to face off in TV debate
The debate will start at 7 p.m. Thursday.
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How the Biddeford ICE killing upended the Maine Senate race
Democratic candidates had been strategizing about the party’s snap primary to find a new U.S. Senate candidate. They were forced to pivot to immigration after a federal agent killed a Biddeford man.
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Maine delegation calls for expedited review of Biddeford ICE shooting
In a letter Tuesday, the state’s 4 members of Congress outlined key elements that federal authorities should include in their investigation of a 26-year-old man’s fatal shooting by a federal immigration officer.
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Jordan Wood ‘paid a price’ for condemning Platner. Now he hopes it pays off.
At a news conference in Lewiston, the Senate candidate-turned House candidate-turned Senate candidate pointed to his call last October for Graham Platner to end his campaign as an advantage in a general election against Susan Collins.
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What Susan Collins, Angus King and Maine officials are saying about the deadly ICE shooting
Federal officials have released few details about the Monday morning shooting that came as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sought to detain a man in Biddeford.
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Protesters storm Susan Collins’ Biddeford office after federal agent shot man
The protest was part of a larger demonstration in response to a deadly shooting on Monday.