The Maine House speaker will face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the most costly Senate race in Maine history, with national implications for control of the Senate.
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Democratic battle to take on Collins heads to primary vote Tuesday
Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, the clear favorite, faces two more progressive candidates: lobbyist Betsy Sweet and attorney Bre Kidman.
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Gideon reports raising $8 million, more than double amount raised by Collins
Maine’s U.S. Senate contest is already the most expensive race in state history and is likely to draw tens of millions of dollars more before the November elections.
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The View from Here: Revolution on Bastille Day?
The pandemic has overshadowed Maine’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary, but it could also affect the outcome.
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Betsy Sweet: Looking at a post-COVID-19 world
The virus has exposed the need for universal health care, investment in infrastructure and broadband access for everyone.
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Douglas Rooks: Jumping to conclusions about Senate race
House Speaker Sara Gideon is not necessarily the front runner to take on Sen. Susan Collins.
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See who is contributing to Betsy Sweet
This searchable database includes all itemized individual donations of $200 or more (or additional donations by individuals who have exceeded $200 for the election) as well as PAC contributions to the 2020 U.S. Senate campaign of Democrat Betsy Sweet of Hallowell. The database covers the period from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2019. Other candidates […]
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Money from away piles up in U.S. Senate race
The most recent campaign finance reports show that out-of-state donors made the vast majority of contributions of $200 or more to the campaigns of Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Sara Gideon.
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Democrats hopeful as they bring campaigns for U.S. Senate to rural Sangerville Grange
SANGERVILLE — For a few hours recently, the 115-year-old East Sangerville Grange Hall, one of those classic white clapboard New England structures, stood at the center of what may prove the most important U.S. Senate race in the nation. That mid-October Saturday night marked the first time each of the Maine Democratic Party’s Senate contenders gathered […]
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Outside group spends big on media blitz to support Sen. Collins’ campaign
The campaign by 1820 PAC is the latest effort by independent groups – many funded by secretive ‘dark money’ – to flood Maine with ads in the 2020 U.S. Senate race.