Why Vice President Pence was in northern Maine on Monday

When you think of the battlegrounds that could decide whether President Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden win next month’s general election, Maine often doesn’t come to mind.

It’s been 32 years since a Republican carried the northern New England state in the race for the White House. You have to go all the way back to then-Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1988.

But Maine is one of only two states – along with Nebraska – that divides its electoral votes by congressional district – and Trump won the state’s more rural Second Congressional District four years ago.