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Maine could derail Todd Blanche confirmation
Maine

Maine could derail Todd Blanche confirmation

  • By Chris Wade | The Center Square contributor

(The Center Square) — Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she plans to vote against Todd Blanche for Attorney General, becoming the first Republican to reject President Donald Trump's nomination.

Michigan

Your Weekly Michigan Political Brief

  • Jon King

  U.S. Senate – Democratic nomination U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) was endorsed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, former U.S. Rep. Brenda Jones, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 876 and The Michigan Chronicle, Michigan’s oldest Black newspaper. Abdul El-Sayed, seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, received endorsements this week from U.S. […]

Commentary

Has New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation law outlived its usefulness?

  • Dante J. Scala

New Hampshire’s political elites quickly pointed fingers after a Democratic National Committee panel voted Friday to strip the Granite State of its first-in-the-nation status on the presidential nomination calendar. Republican elites blamed Democrats for the Rules and Bylaws Committee decision. Democratic elites blamed their national party leadership. What neither side did, but should, is consider […]

Maine

Jackson locks down Democratic votes ahead of convention

  • By Chris Wade | The Center Square contributor

(The Center Square) — Troy Jackson has enough support to win the Democratic Party's nomination in the U.S. Senate race, after picking up a majority of delegates ahead of next weekend's special convention.