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This week's GOP convention is giving America a nightly view of the current Republican Party, under complete command of President Trump.

Where insurgents arose with a clear claim to being Tea Party favorites, they have lost. In many cases, they have flat-lined weeks before the primary.

This Day In Maine for Friday, January 5, 2024

Maine lawmakers are considering a slate of bills that would potentially open up party primaries to unenrolled voters.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on yet another issue in the debate over the Presidential Debates. After both the Gore and Bush campaigns agreed on their debate formats, third party candidates are feeling excluded. For them to participate, third party candidates must meet what they call a ridiculous criterion set up by the bi-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates. That criterion states that a candidate must win an average of at least 15-percent in national polls to be invited to the debates.

Linda speaks with former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm. He is currently the director of the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues at the University of Denver and supports running a third party candidate for President under the banner of the Reform Party. He feels neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are facing the most serious issue before Americans today: how to cut back the middle class entitlements of Social Security and Medicare as the baby boom generation ages.

Storyteller Jay O'Callahan reminds us that today is the 222nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On that day in 1773, colonists threw into Boston Harbor a shipload of tea which King George of England was trying to force down their throat.

Republicans in the US Senate currently hold an eight vote advantage over the Democrats. But a third of the Senate seats are being contested in elections this year. Robert talks to Bob Benenson, Managing Editor for Politics at Congressional Quarterly, about the party balance in the Senate, and what might change this fall.

Both Democrats and Republicans appealed to minority voters during their national conventions. Commentator John Ridley says both parties preyed upon stereotypes when pitching to African-Americans.

The pair led the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 , 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.