Press Herald
- Maine Senate candidate Jordan Wood dropping out to run for 2nd District seat
- Democrats and President Donald Trump agree — last week’s elections were not good for Republicans. The results do little to settle the internal dispute in the party between progressives and moderates — a dynamic that will play out in Maine’s Senate primary between Gov. Janet Mills and Graham Platner. Unpacking what it all means, especially here in Maine, is more complicated.
- Angus King III, a Democratic candidate in Maine’s crowded gubernatorial primary, is holding off on criticism of the deal to end the federal government shutdown — an agreement his father, U.S. Sen. Angus King, helped negotiate — even as other prominent Maine Democrats have been united in their opposition. “No one wins a shutdown, and it was certainly made clear that Republicans are willing to risk that harm while everyday Mainers lose,” King III’s statement said in part. “And I’ve had enough of it.”