Political Brew host Phil Hirschkorn is joined by Democratic political analyst Betsy Sweet and Republican political analyst Joe Bruno.

The race for Maine’s Second Congressional District is going to ranked choice tabulations.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said that based on unofficial returns, Maine broke another record for the number of voters turning out for a midterm with more than 730,000 voting in the 2026 general election.

Democrats secured at least 54 Senate seats after Tuesday’s midterm elections. While some newly elected Democratic senators, including Adam Hamilton in Kansas and Troy Jackson in Maine, said during their campaigns that they would not vote for Schumer as majority leader,

Conservative Ukraine stalwarts like New York’s Mike Lawler and Maine’s Susan Collins were shown the political door on election night. At the same time, Republican members who have been more sympathetic to Russia,

Susan Collins, a five-term senator and a political Goliath in Maine, couldn’t overcome the "Trump tsunami," she told the New York Times.

LePage, who likes to say he was Trump before Trump, appears to have won Maine’s second congressional district race.

Hannah Pingree pledged to tackle housing and healthcare costs, support small businesses, and work across party lines as she prepares to be Maine's next governor.

The official tally from the Secretary of State for the 2nd Congressional District race will remain undecided, probably for another week.

Close vote margins keep the outcomes of races like the Penobscot County Jail referendum and Oxford sheriff undecided while awaiting final tallies.