The poll by Portland-based Pan Atlantic Research gave Gideon a 7 percentage-point lead over the incumbent as the race heads into its final weeks.
Donald Trump
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Forum: Reader responds to Balentine’s ‘Mind your P’s’ column
John Balentine’s Oct. 1 article “Mind your P’s this election season” warrants additional clarification. He states that Trump’s 2017 tax cuts “benefit everyone from the wealthy to the working stiff and created the greatest economy ever.” Trump came into office benefiting from an economy that had been booming since its recovery from the Great Recession. […]
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Maine Voices: Understanding science, truth can help defeat denial, distortion
COVID-19 shows that if we accept as true only what we want to be true, then we’ll overlook what we prefer not to see.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, News, Politics
Trump campaign seizes on dubious Biden-Ukraine story
Looking to undermine rival Joe Biden 20 days before the election, President Trump’s campaign seizes on a tabloid story offering bizarre twists to a familiar line of attack: Biden’s relationship with Ukraine
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Nation & World, Politics
Trump, Biden to appear at separate town hall events, same time, different networks
Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s event will be televised by ABC, while NBC agrees to hold a Trump event after he submitted to an independent coronavirus test.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Trump, Biden trips illustrate Electoral College calculations
The president planned a rally in Pennsylvania, while Biden was in Florida courting seniors.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Trump lawyers ask Supreme Court to halt ruling that he give his tax records to prosecutor
The court could allow the immediate enforcement of a subpoena issued by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. or block it temporarily.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Nation & World, Politics
Barrett tells senators she has no agenda on health care, other issues before Supreme Court
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett would not say whether she would recuse herself from any election-related cases involving President Trump, who nominated her.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: New American exceptionalism taking our country in the wrong direction
The U.S. has been doing great damage to not only itself, but to other countries as well, sundering alliances and alienating allies.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Defiant Trump defends virus record in 1st post-COVID rally
After the White House sidestepped the question for days, the president’s doctor said Trump had tested negative for the virus and the doctor had concluded that Trump was not contagious.