Steve Mistler

Reporter for Maine Public Broadcasting. Assignments for @npr. Former 🗞️ guy now on the 📻. Signal: @stevemistler.83

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer https://t.co/7l2bkD0MIH

[CapitolHillAccess.com - Tony Raymond @traymond071187]

Pine Tree Results PAC spends $1,508,512 to OPPOSE Graham Platner (Sen ME Sen)(D)

#MESen
IE DETAILS: https://t.co/Qt5M7Jb2Tw

Spending Leaders:
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Spending List:
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2026 Cycle FEC Data:
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FEC:
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[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

Folarin Balogun, the striker responsible for 3 of the US’s 6 goals in the WC so far, would not be considered a US citizen under Trump’s plan to repeal birthright citizenship.

https://t.co/HnW0rToEm5

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

OUR SOIL. 🇺🇸

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

@MEBBallRankings You know who navigated this environment? Pingree. Had establishment backing (team Mills), endorsed populist firebrand Platner, got a quasi-endorsement in return and played the RCV coalition game well enough to come from behind and beat Shah. It worked.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

Also wonder if the DCCC intervention for Baldacci hurt more than helped. There’s palpable anger at establishment Dems (Platner is running on it). And it’s not going to get the same pass it once did when the perception among a lot of Dem voters is that’s responsible for Trump 2.0

[Anthony Emerson❤️🌲🦞🇾🇪🌹 @AnthonyMEmerson]

The reason Joe Baldacci lost is because he ran a super lazy campaign, relying on endorsements and inertia to win. He ran a 2010 campaign in 2026. Dunlap — and even Wood — outhustled him.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

@MEBBallRankings Hard for candidates to turn down money support when they’re told it’s the only way to win. Also, his campaign manager was a paid consultant for Golden. That might have played a role in getting it in the first place

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

@MEBBallRankings And all three of his opponents were quick to attack him for it. Don’t think they would’ve have drawn attention to it unless they thought it hurt him

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

We keep hearing that the Dem brand is in the crapper and I think that’s true for a lot of voters. Dem voters especially.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

Story, for those who still read

https://t.co/RcoAHvVk8Q

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

Probably should’ve worked this into the nut graf, but struck by this result in the Maine governor’s race with #MESEN as the backdrop

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

Bobby Charles, who had a big lead after election day, wins the RCV runoff after six rounds. Ben Midgely is the runnerup

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

2-hour notice for runoff given at 9:17 p.m.
So, maybe we'll get results before midnight. TBD.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

@ChrisRoy78 I dunno but I really feel for these News Center people. They've been live since like 11:30 and vamping the entire time. Brutal.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

Maybe they're waiting for the sun to rise. Only about three hours and 15 minutes away.

[Anthony Emerson❤️🌲🦞🇾🇪🌹 @AnthonyMEmerson]

I posted this three and a half hours ago

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

2-hour notice for runoff given at 9:17 p.m.
So, maybe we'll get results before midnight. TBD.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

This. All day this. Avg. RCV runoff has taken 8.5 days, but this time they kept saying "they're close" when they weren't and now everyone is wondering why it's taking so long. Now they're gonna drop results at like 8 pm on the eve of a long weekend. Maybe.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

No two-hour notice yet. But they say they're going to run this thing no matter what. Midnight, 1 am, 2 am. Whatever.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

This. All day this. Avg. RCV runoff has taken 8.5 days, but this time they kept saying "they're close" when they weren't and now everyone is wondering why it's taking so long. Now they're gonna drop results at like 8 pm on the eve of a long weekend. Maybe.

[Maine Politics @ME_Politics_]

@AnthonyMEmerson They need to stop making predictions about how long this will take.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

If you haven't been following along -- and good on you if you haven't or don't have to -- they're going to give a two-hour notice before they run this thing. They have not done that yet. It's 8 p.m.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

No shade on the election workers. They're doing their job to validate results. It takes time to get it right.

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

@sbyrd223 I know some people don’t read anymore, but that’s in the story linked above

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

Maine Republicans had their best GOP gubernatorial primary turnout since tea party in 2010. But Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner had more votes than all 8 GOP candidates -- and more than any Dem primary Sen candidate since ME began electing senators by popular vote

[Steve Mistler @stevemistler]

@aobrien2010 As of Tuesday at 5 pm, yes, more than 75% of unenrolleds who voted absentee voted in the Dem primary.