Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will visit Bangor on Friday to campaign in support of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency. Sanders, who lost to Clinton in the Democratic primary but beat Clinton handily in Maine’s caucuses in March, is scheduled to speak beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the Cross Insurance Center on Main Street. […]
Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld will visit Bangor on Saturday evening for a town hall meeting aimed at stoking support for the Libertarian ticket. Weld, who was the Republican governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, is scheduled to appear for the two-hour event at 6 p.m. at the Spectacular Events Center at 395 […]
The primary election for the 1st Congressional District seat came and went months ago but animosity between the two Republican candidates continues. Mark Holbrook of Brunswick walked away with the nomination after he bested Ande Smith of North Yarmouth by just 57 votes. Animosity between Holbrook and Smith began to show late in the primary […]
The Congressional Leadership Fund announced Tuesday that it will spend $600,000 between now and Election Day in a bid to foil Democrat Emily Cain’s bid to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin in Maine’s 2nd District. The fund, which is a super-PAC backed by House Republican leadership, said the money will be used for a […]
Hillary Clinton is in danger of being the first Democrat to lose Maine in a presidential election since 1988, with a poll released Tuesday showing her tied statewide with Republican Donald Trump. The survey from the progressive Maine People’s Resource Center is the most worrying sign for the Democrat here so far, reinforcing a clear Trump lead in […]
Independent U.S. Sen. Angus King on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s argument that the United States should close its borders to immigrants. King, the former governor whom Maine voters overwhelmingly elected to the Senate in 2012, said on CNN’s “New Day” program, which was subsequently summarized by The Hill, that ending immigration would be a “terrible […]
No one turned out Wednesday in Augusta to discuss rule changes proposed by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services for a welfare-to-work program that the state is moving toward privatizing. DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew said the proposed rule changes have little or nothing to do with the state’s move to have a private contractor […]
Good morning from Augusta, where a new Colby College/Boston Globe poll has again raised the prospect of Donald Trump winning in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District and taking one of our coveted electoral votes. Maine, one of two states that splits electoral votes by congressional district — giving one each to district-level winners and two to […]
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced Thursday that she will come to Maine next week for a tour of college campuses. Stein’s swing through Maine on Sept. 14 is part of a wider tour of New England college campuses and part of her long-shot presidential run. A number of polls have put Stein’s support […]
Even with the election still two months away and the results far from certain, a contest is brewing over who will become the next speaker of the House of Representatives.
