Another Democrat, co-founder of Maine Beer Company Dan Kleban, has entered the race to try to unseat longtime Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in 2026. Announcing his candidacy on Wednesday, the 48-year-old Cumberland County resident said he’s running because he feels a responsibility to do what’s right for Maine, like when he started his company […]

Both the Republican and Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire have competitions now that state Sen. Dan Innis and progressive organizer Karishma Manzur have announced campaigns. Manzur, an Exeter biomedical scientist, announced her candidacy in the Democratic primary Wednesday. As a researcher, Manzur studied Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy. Politically, she’s perhaps most known […]

A largely unknown oysterman and military veteran, Graham Platner garnered widespread attention this week when he launched a U.S. Senate campaign to try to unseat longtime Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. Most of the candidates running against Collins so far are political newcomers like Graham, but his splashy campaign launch in the The New York […]

Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator for Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during the first Trump administration, announced Wednesday he is running for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Brown, a Republican, joins an early race to replace Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who announced in March that she would retire at the end of […]