State Rep. Austin Theriault voted against several key abortion rights measures and avoided casting a vote on others.
A total of 3,793 people registered to vote the same month President Biden ended his reelection campaign, according to the Maine Department of Secretary of State.
Registrations jumped following Biden's announcement on July 21 and the month ended with 3,793 registrations, the most of any month in the past year with the exception of November 2023.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says voter registration in the state spiked after President Joe Biden backed out of the race.
Maine has seen a marked increase in new voter registrations since President Joe Biden dropped out of the upcoming presidential race on July 21 and subsequently endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, with particular spikes in the two weeks immediately following.
The plaintiffs claim Gov. Mills and Democratic leaders in the Legislature violated the Maine Constitution. The court says they don't have the grounds to sue.
One supporter said he was hired to collect signatures for the longshot progressive candidate, but stopped after he realized it was part of Republican efforts to elect former President Donald Trump.
Maine Congressman Jared Golden is refusing to say who he'll vote for in the presidential race. He's already said he wouldn't endorse anyone, but he says someone in the media asked him if he would vote in the presidential election and if so,
Maine has been going in circles trying to pass labor safeguards for agricultural workers who are excluded from protections under state law regarding overtime, rest breaks and minimum wage. A fight that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris similarly took up in 2018 when she was a senator for California.
The Topsham resident who challenged independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being on the presidential ballot in Maine has withdrawn his petition. James Stretch filed a petition challenging Kennedy’s spot on the ballot last Thursday,
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will likely appear on Maine ballots in November after a challenge to his nominating petitions was dropped.