Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson will headline a banquet at the Maine Republican Party’s state convention on April 22 in Bangor. The retired neurosurgeon dropped out of the race in March and endorsed Republican front-runner Donald Trump, the controversial billionaire also backed by Gov. Paul LePage. Carson has been a top Trump surrogate since then, but he’s been […]
Political eyes are trained toward New Hampshire on Tuesday, as record turnout is expected to decide the state’s first-in-the-nation primary that could change the 2016 presidential race. The prohibitive favorites are Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump, who respectively have greater than 99 percent and 69 percent chances of winning, according to polling forecasts by FiveThirtyEight. It’s […]
Gov. Paul LePage will be a featured speaker this week at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s States and National Policy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona. LePage is among a list of guest speakers that is stacked with high-profile Republicans, including Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. The […]
