Maine Republican gets barred from primary to face King, then says he'll run against Collins
Source: Bangor Daily News
A federal judge on Friday denied Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Max Linn’s last-ditch effort to re-enter Tuesday’s primary election for the right to face independent U.S. Sen. Angus King, then teased a run against U.S. Sen. Susan Collins.
The pronouncement that he’d run in 2020 came after a third straight loss in court for Linn, a former Florida gubernatorial candidate who continued to send mailers and place campaign signs after Maine’s high court upheld the secretary of state’s ruling that Linn didn’t qualify for the 2018 primary.
Linn supporters appealed that ruling to U.S. District Court on Monday, but his bid for an injunction to allow votes for him to be counted in Tuesday’s primary was rejected from the bench by Judge Nancy Torreson on Friday. Linn’s side had argued that signatures were improperly disqualified because of “guilt by association.”
That ends nearly three months of legal wrangling over the candidacy of Linn, who ran for Florida governor in 2006 and for Congress in that state as a Democrat in 2008 before emerging in Maine politics as a pro-President Donald Trump Republican in January.
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