📅 Here's the Monday schedule on the campaign trail.
◉ Mills will be with Democratic lawmakers for a downtown walk in Bath at 10 a.m. before a 12:30 p.m. visit with students at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. (Independent Sam Hunkler will also be there.)
◉ She will then go to Lewiston to meet with workers at the Walmart distribution center and hold a 5 p.m. rally at Dufresne Park to close her campaign out.
◉ LePage holds his closing rally at 5 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Scarborough.
◉ Poliquin will also be in Lewiston for a 1 p.m. rally and news conference in Kennedy Park. Golden has no public events.
📊 A late-breaking poll has Mills up with the 2nd District race virtually tied.
◉ Mills had 52 percent support to LePage's 44 percent in a poll released Sunday by the University of New Hampshire. But the 2nd District race was firmly in the balance, with Golden finding 46 percent support to Poliquin's 45 percent and independent Tiffany Bond pulling 8 percent.
◉ That hews to a general theme in public polling that deems the Golden-Poliquin election in the conservative-leaning half of Maine to be more competitive than the governor's race. It will be decided by ranked-choice voting.
📪 Poliquin makes a mail play for No. 2 voters.
◉ The Republican used a Bond quote against Golden in an apparent play to win some of her supporters over in a ranked-choice count.
◉ The quote on the front of the mailer, which says the Democratic congressman "gladly throws women, families in front of a bus on this to help him get elected" is a reference to Golden saying in a debate that he did not support late-term abortion — something Poliquin has said is "horrible."
◉ Golden beat Poliquin in 2018 by winning an outsized share of second-choice votes from those who picked Bond and another independent first. A SurveyUSA poll last week showed that the incumbent still has an advantage among Bond voters, but Poliquin is trying to blunt that margin. |
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