Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, speaker of the Maine House, sought repeatedly to link Collins with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump, urging Mainers to vote for change politico.com/2020-election/…
Though Collins had mostly trailed in the polls for months, her race tightened down the stretch as late money poured into the state politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
Collins' win preserves a small bloc of moderate GOP votes in the Senate — and it could potentially preserve the GOP’s Senate majority, too, as Maine was one of the Democratic Party’s top target states this year politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
In her acceptance speech, Collins promised her constituents "I will serve you with all my heart" politi.co/361NnfS
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Our @playbookplus authors say Biden has the upper hand in the battle for the presidency. But this battle will be a multi-front political and legal struggle that could drag on for weeks. politico.com/newsletters/pl…
President Trump has demonstrated precisely what his White House and campaign suggested he’d do: He is filing lawsuits, lobbing rhetorical bombshells and trying to stave off defeat politico.com/newsletters/pl…
Here's where we are this A.M.:
The AP has Biden at 264 electoral votes after it put Arizona in his corner — just six short of the presidency. Other media organizations have held off at putting him this close. Trump is warning of “secretly dumped ballots.” politico.com/newsletters/pl…
Biden's win flips Michigan and its 16 electoral votes back to Democrats, four years after Trump painted it red in a narrow, shocking victory politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
Biden is now at 264 electoral votes. Trump is at 214.
Biden just won what might be the most polarized state in the country: Wisconsin. It's the first of three big wins he needs to reach 270. politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
Trump’s victory in the state four years ago was perhaps the most surprising outcome of the 2016 election. No Republican had carried Wisconsin since 1984, and Hillary Clinton didn’t visit the state once during the general election. politi.co/3oYPlGE
President Trump's reelection campaign announced that it would "immediately" request a recount in Wisconsin, as vote totals showed him narrowly trailing Joe Biden with 95 percent of ballots reported politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
"Despite ridiculous public polling used as a voter suppression tactic, Wisconsin has been a razor thin race as we always knew that it would be," Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said in a statement
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — and their 46 electoral votes — vaulted Donald Trump into the White House in 2016.
And once again, they're playing a decisive role in 2020. Here's where vote-counting stands in each of them. politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
Wisconsin proved to be far more competitive than the Biden campaign — and polls— had projected, partly due to strong turnout in the state's rural counties. As of 11:13 a.m. ET, 95% of the expected vote has been counted. politi.co/2JACiei
In Michigan, 96% of the expected vote is in. The state's top elections official says Michigan's presidential results could be known by the end of the day.