Nine candidates for governor debate at an Augusta event hosted by the Maine Primary Care Association on March 18. Credit: Benjamin Kail / BDN Our political journalists are based in the Maine State House and have deep source networks across the partisan ...

Follow WTOP’s team coverage of the D.C. primary and Election 2026 online, on air at 103.5 FM or on the WTOP News app. D.C.’s June primary election may be the District’s most consequential in decades. And it’s not just the races on the ballot ...

Top choice: Having candidates to vote for rather than against. Choice #2: Having more candidates to choose among. Choice #3: Being able to vote for more than one candidate, in order of preference. Choice #4: Doing so in a way that doesn’t waste my vote ...