After demolishing Gov. Janet Mills in Maine’s Democratic primary, the political newbie confronts a major challenge running against the Senate’s longest-serving Republican woman.
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Just after 9 a.m. on a Thursday morning in April, Brewer High School student Dylan Unobskey walked into the main office and handed his cell phone to Office Secretary Megan Gobeil. Gobeil slipped the phone into a caddy alongside two dozen others and handed Unobskey a claim ticket he could use to retrieve it at […]
Graham Platner will kick off starts his first general election at one of the lowest points of his upstart Senate campaign. There has been nonstop coverage, both in Maine and nationally, about racy text messages he sent to women who aren’t his wife, as well as his alleged callous treatment of ex-girlfriends. That drumbeat helped lead to Tuesday’s election results, in which about 20 percent of…
Graham Platner, Maine's likely Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, was hand-plucked by a pair of socialist political operatives who sought him out after catching wind of him through the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) network.
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Maine Republican gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush explained that voters in Maine are "sick to death" of Maine's Democrat Gov. Janet Mills, who is term-limited.
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The DCCC endorsed eight moderate candidates, even in races where their progressive challengers have the momentum.
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As Gov. Janet Mills recovers from her anemic Senate bid, she’ll have to decide how to handle Graham Platner, the all-but-voter-anointed Democratic nominee.
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One involved a 78-year-old candidate withdrawing from a Senate race. The other was about approving a Trump judicial choice.
Conservative businessman and Maine gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush told Breitbart News Saturday that the Republicans in Maine have a "much better chance of holding" the Senate seat against Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner.
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While the idea of a special tax on millionaires is hotly debated across the country, Maine state Rep. Cheryl Golek characterized her state’s new tax as a modest and reasonable step toward fairness. That’s because, she said, working- and middle-class households in Maine — including teachers, firefighters and nurses — are paying effective state income […]
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Governor Janet Mills’s decision to suspend her campaign effectively hands the Democratic nomination for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat to Graham Platner. In the latest edition of _Right Now,_ Alex Seitz-Wald, deputy editor of the Midcoast Villager, explains how Platner surged in the…
Maine Governor Janet Mills’s decision to suspend her U.S. Senate campaign and effectively concede to upstart Graham Platner is a huge temporary victory for progressive Democrats in their ongoing fight with the party’s center-left establishment wing. But it will only be a true victory for progressives if Planter wins in November. And the left will be diminished if the untested Platner loses the…
Maine's Democrat Gov. Janet Mills, 78, has suspended her Senate campaign, which she hoped would unseat 5-term incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).
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Maine Governor Janet Mills withdrew her campaign to represent the state in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.
Mills was the establishment Democratic favorite to replace Senator Susan Collins, a Republican who has held the seat since 1997. But she severely lagged in the polls behind progressive candidate Graham Platner.
In a statement released Thursday, Mills explained that her exit from the race…
Anti-data center bills have been introduced in at least a dozen states.
Sen. Sue Collins (R-ME) signed the petition to put it on the ballot.
The governors’ annual D.C. confab often flies under the radar. But state leaders’ opposition to Trump’s efforts to divide them made this year’s gathering uncommonly notable.
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Democratic governors headed to an annual bipartisan gathering in the nation’s capital will not participate in a traditional White House black-tie dinner after President Donald Trump disinvited several Democrats, including Maryland Gov. Wes Moore.
President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from a traditional bipartisan meeting at the White House and disinvited several others, includingi Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, from a black-tie dinner for the National Governors Association.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump decided to exclude Democratic governors from a traditional annual meeting at the White House and to disinvite several others from a black-tie dinner, according to the White House, the governors and the National Governors Association. The National Governors Association organizes the bipartisan winter gathering that usually includes a working meeting […]