Politics

For the past few weeks, a particular scene has repeated itself several times.

It starts with a protester’s arrival at the governor’s mansion in Augusta in a car festooned with American flags and bumper sticker slogans familiar to those who consume internet-born conspiracies proliferating on social media.

“Mills kills” is scrawled on one of her side windows and across the sign she carries. The words are hard to read from a distance, but easy to hear as she bellows at passersby while pacing the fence line of the Blaine House.

The U.S. Senate race in Maine is mercifully over, but politics fiends here and across the country just can’t quit it.

U.S. Sen. Angus King of Maine says President Donald Trump is endangering national security by blocking transition procedures for the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.

The 2020 election, by many accounts, was supposed to be a reckoning for Republicans in the U.S. Senate. But it didn’t turn out that way. One reason for that is the victory of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, which might help her party retain its majority and offer her a chance to repair her own image as a centrist.

Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins says she wished President-elect Joe Biden the best when he called her last week to congratulate her on her reelection.

Celebrating supporters poured into Portland streets Sunday following the announcement that Former Vice President Joe Biden was the new president-elect.

We’ve written — and spoken — tons about Maine’s historic election and the outcomes it produced this week.