Maine Offers Last Hope for New England to Send a Midterm Republican Candidate to DC

Maine Offers Last Hope for New England to Send a Midterm Republican Candidate to DC
Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-Maine) speaks in Washington on Sept. 12, 2017. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Alice Giordano
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New England Republicans have one more chance to pick up a seat in the U.S. Congress out of the region’s otherwise across-the-board losses to Democrats.

The final hope comes from a tight race in Maine between incumbent Jared Golden and conservative challenger Bruce Poliquin, slated to be decided next week by ranked-choice voting (RCV), a growing trend across the United States in picking party candidates and general election winners in local, state, and federal elections.

Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.
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