PoliticsOur political journalists are based in the Maine State House and have deep source networks across the partisan spectrum in communities all over the state. Their coverage aims to cut through major debates and probe how officials make decisions. Read more Politics coverage here. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner isn’t ruling out meeting with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson after the part-time Mainer told an interviewer he planned on meeting the state’s rising progressive star. Carlson’s public split with President Donald Trump over the Iran war has been the main subject of a recent battery of interviews, including one with the...