The Democratic presidential nominee and his running mate will appear in battleground states after Labor Day, aides say.
Election 2020
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Trump, at N.H. rally, decries actions of ‘thugs,’ ‘anarchists’
Sowing fear about the implications of a Joe Biden victory, the president says voters need to support him to ‘save democracy from the mob.’
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Google will not remove ads with ‘blatant disinformation’ about voting by mail
The ads, from a shadowy group that echoes the president’s misleading claims, are the latest in a campaign to discourage voters from using the U.S. Postal Service to deliver their ballots in the upcoming election.
Posted inCoastal Journal, Northern Forecaster
Election 2020: Freeport residents square off in state House 48 race
Republican Jay Finegan and Democrat Melanie Sachs seek to fill the post being vacated by outgoing House Speaker Sara Gideon.
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Republican convention takeaways: What virus? Fear motivates
President Donald Trump’s nominvation acceptance speech was often foreboding, his new policies were few, and he gave only a vague idea of what four more years under him would bring
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Ad targeting Collins over Postal Service debts leaves a lot out
Postal finances are more complicated than the ads let on, and members of both parties have had a hand in bringing the agency to where it is today.
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Another View: Sorry, Mr. President, there’s no miracle cure for COVID
Trump’s naked self-interest drives his rush to announce the latest ‘breakthrough.’
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RNC chairwoman: Democrats don’t want to play by the same voting rules
They’re in courtrooms across the country trying to strip away voting laws on the books.
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LePage and Poliquin tout Trump before his acceptance speech
The former Republican governor and the two-term 2nd District congressman, who lost his re-election bid in 2018 to a Democrat, praised a recent trade deal that removes European Union tariffs on Maine lobster.
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Mills signs executive order to support absentee voting, protect polling places from COVID-19
The order gives clerks more time to process absentee ballots, limits the number of people in a polling place to 50 and requires municipalities to promote distancing among voters and poll workers.