Shenna Bellows

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Troy Jackson, a progressive, has built a clear edge in Maine’s abbreviated nomination process to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic Senate nominee after he dropped out this month under pressure from party leaders

The answers from the eight participating Democrats showed an effort to capture some of Platner’s momentum and messaging — even as they sought to stake out their own candidacies amid a scramble to find another party nominee

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Candidates gunning to win the Democratic nomination must file with the state party by Wednesday to get on the ballot

Fatal ICE Shooting Draws Maine Vigils as Agency Scrutiny Grows

About 600 delegates will select a replacement at a state convention later this month

The Maine Democratic Party plans a nominating convention before the July 27 replacement deadline, with roughly 600 delegates set to choose among a field that includes Jackson, former state CDC director Nirav Shah, and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows

Roughly 300 members of the Democratic Socialists of America have signed a letter asking that D.S.A. candidates and elected officials drop Morris Katz and Fight Agency, the consultant and firm closely associated with Graham Platner’s disgraced and abandoned Senate campaign in Maine

Dana Bash breaks down Graham Platner's 11-minute video dropping out of Maine's Senate race and blasting party leaders CNN

Shah became a familiar figure to Mainers while leading the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as director of the Maine CDC, a role that gave him broad statewide name recognition before entering politics

Trump brands Democrat Maine candidate Platner a 'pig' and a 'thug' in Oval Office rant

Under the proposal, states would be permitted to submit their entire voter registration rolls to a federal immigration database to verify citizenship and voting eligibility

These lawsuits escalate a months-long standoff between the Justice Department and Democrat-led states over immigration enforcement

The proposal from parents’ group Protect Girls Sports in Maine was slated to go before voters in November

Federal judges in Maine and Wisconsin have dismissed lawsuits brought by the United States Department of Justice seeking to force the states to hand over detailed voter registration data

President Trump on Wednesday praised U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers for their work at airports this week as lengthy security wait times stack up amid the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding lapse

The high-profile deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports has renewed support on the right and fear on the left about the possibility of ICE going to the polls in November

Trump's immigration campaign criticized by activists and Democrats

As the election officials gathered, the FBI was executing a search warrant at the Fulton County, Georgia, elections office in search of ballots from 2020

The president has escalated his language as his administration takes steps to involve itself more in election matters

The Minnesota Timberwolves released a statement from its players regarding the rising anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tensions in Minneapolis

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson called fears of voter suppression “Democrat conspiracies” with “no basis in reality.”

Donald Trump appears to be practicing his “art of the deal” on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz: he is attempting to extract concessions from the North Star state in exchange for a “drawdown” of federal ICE agents

The Trump administration has recently escalated its efforts to prove widespread voter fraud in 2020

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has launched "Operation Catch of the Day" across Maine, arresting criminal illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes as part of a crackdown ordered under President Donald Trump and Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem