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Election News Digest: September 4 [1]

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Date: 2025-09-04

Maine Beer Company founder joins race against Susan Collins Another Democrat, co-founder of Maine Beer Company Dan Kleban, has entered the race to try to unseat long-time 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 with his wife and brother after being laid off from a law firm during the Great Recession. “Executives at the big banks who crashed our economy walked away without facing any consequences. I was pissed,” Kleban said in a statement. “So my brother and I started Maine Beer Company not only to make good beer, but to live by our Do What’s Right motto that crooks on Wall Street never understood.” In practice, that motto means providing fully paid health care and donating 1% of all annual sales to environmental nonprofits, he added. mainemorningstar.com/...

Bracy Davis, Young win Orange County special elections in landslides Florida Democrats turned in sizable overperformances with a pair of blowout victoriesin the Orlando area on Tuesday night. In the vacant 15th Senate District, Democratic state Rep. LaVon Bracy Davis defeated Republican Willie Montague in a 73-27 landslide. According to calculations by The Downballot, Kamala Harris carried the district 61-38 last year, meaning Bracy Davis ran 22 points ahead of the top of the ticket. And in the 40th House District, which Bracy Davis had to give up under Florida's "resign to run" law, Democrat RaShon Young cruised to a similar 75-25 win. Young, a former staffer for Bracy Davis, beat Harris' 67-32 showing by 15 points. www.the-downballot.com/...

Democratic DA Scott Colom announces U.S. Senate run against Hyde-Smith Scott Colom, a Democratic district attorney in north Mississippi, announced today that he will run for the U.S. Senate next year against incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith. Colom’s entrance into the race is likely to spark a long and expensive battle for the seat, with both national parties expected to spend millions on the race in the Magnolia State. Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic leader from New York, told the New York Times he wants to help elect a Democrat in Mississippi. But the Republican Party is almost certain to defend its ironclad grip on Mississippi, a state where both U.S. Senate seats have been held by the GOP since 1989. mississippitoday.org/...

Mikie Sherrill & DGA launch ad campaign for NJ-GOV Mikie Sherrill and her allies at the Democratic Governors Association are both launching their first ads of the fall general election for New Jersey's open governorship. Sherrill's inaugural spot touts her background as a Navy helicopter pilot before the candidate addresses soaring energy costs in the state. "Day one as governor, I'm declaring a state of emergency on utility costs," she says. "Using emergency powers to end these rate hikes and drive down your bills.” www.the-downballot.com/...

VA Gov candidate runs transphobic ad Republican Winsome Earle-Sears is spending what little cash her campaign has on a classic GOP message: straight-up transphobia. "Abigail Spanberger won't just change direction. She'll transform Virginia," warns a narrator in Earle-Sears' latest ad. "Spanberger wants boys to play sports and share locker rooms with little girls. And Spanberger will let children change genders without telling their parents.” Earle-Sears is also pushing similar rhetoric on digital platforms. Political analyst Sam Shirazi flags a different spot that reuses Donald Trump's most infamous tagline from 2024: "Spanberger is for they/them, not us," says the narrator. www.the-downballot.com/...

Former Iowa U.S. Rep. Rod Blum weighs congressional comeback Republican former Iowa U.S. Rep. Rod Blum, who represented Iowa’s former 1st Congressional District from 2015 to 2019, teased a run for Congress in the state’s open 2nd District seat in 2026. The seat is currently held by Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson of Marion, who announced on Tuesday she will seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by GOP incumbent Joni Ernst, who hours earlier published a video announcing she will not seek re-election to a third term. Blum, 70, served two terms in Congress, defeating Democratic former Iowa House Speaker Pat Murphy in 2014 in a Republican upset and securing re-election in 2016 before losing to Democrat Abby Finkenauer in 2018. www.thegazette.com/...

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