'I think we saw why yesterday as these stories came out'
A month after withdrawing from the state’s Senate race, Gov. Janet Mills suggested she remained an option after the likely Democratic nominee, Graham Platner, faced a new scandal.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is sticking by Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner in the face of controversy as he announced a get-out-the-vote rally with Platner in Maine for Friday. Platner’s campaign was hit with another scandal this weekend, as news broke that he sent sexually explicit text messages to multiple women while married to his […]
Questions about a Democrat’s character amid a sexting scandal found an incumbent senator resorting to Trump Derangement Syndrome-spin to claim a “pretty clear contrast.” Over the weekend, […]
President Donald Trump's administration is planning to pull the plug on his $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay out people supposedly victimized by "lawfare" — a controversial plan that critics claimed was a slush fund to pay out money to Jan. 6 rioters and other allies of the president convicted of crimes.According to Axios, White House officials are set to comply with a court order putting the fund on pause and don't have plans at this time to contest the court's action or try to resume it later."It's dead for now," one official told Axios.The fund was created as a supposed "settlement" of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS for failing to safeguard his tax information from a whistleblower who illegally leaked it.However, the optics of the fund led even a number of Republicans to speak out in criticism, and GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill are debating a provision in the Homeland Security reconciliation bill that would put sharp restrictions on how any payouts from the fund could potentially be spent.This also comes as a separate court is reopening the IRS lawsuit at the behest of dozens of retired judges, so as to review whether the settlement in question was appropriate.
Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on Monday slammed incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for having a high-earning stock portfolio and net worth. Platner’s campaign said in a Monday press release that Collins is worth up to $9.6 million and that she owns the eighth best-performing stock portfolio in the Senate. His team says she…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Monday reminded voters that she’s on the ballot for the Democratic Senate primary in the Pine Tree State as they weigh the fallout from reports of Graham Platner sexting women other than his wife. “People have the impression that I ‘withdrew’ or ‘dropped out,’ but I simply suspended active…