Subject: FW: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MDP Calls on Maine Republicans to Denounce Trump
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Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 10:51:44 -0700

From: Katie Baker [mailto:[email-masked]]
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Subject: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MDP Calls on Maine Republicans to Denounce Trump

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 12, 2016

                                                            CONTACT: KATIE BAKER
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MDP Calls on Maine Republicans to Denounce Trump

AUGUSTA, Maine – As Donald Trump today meets with U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan in an attempt to create a “façade of unity”<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/us/politics/donald-trump-paul-ryan-gop.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0> with the Republican Party, Maine Democratic Party Chairman Phil Bartlett called for the state’s top Republicans to denounce Trump’s bid for the presidency.

“With a temperament similar to that of Gov. Paul LePage, Donald Trump cannot be trusted to serve as the commander-in-chief of our armed forces,” said Chairman Bartlett. “We need a leader who will unite, rather than divide us with vitriolic rhetoric that alienates women and minorities. I call upon Sen. Susan Collins and Congressman Bruce Poliquin to join Republican leaders such as Gov. Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/03/mitt-romney-donald-trump/> in clearly, unequivocally denouncing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.”

Reuters reported yesterday<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-republicans-idUSKCN0Y212D> that Sen. Collins said she had not “foreclosed the possibility of eventually supporting” Trump, and in an opinion column published this week<http://www.pressherald.com/2016/05/08/alan-caron-its-sen-collins-turn-to-stand-up-to-trump/> in the Portland Press Herald, Alan Caron asked whether Sen. Collins could “find the kind of courage that Margaret Chase Smith displayed when challenging Joseph McCarthy?”

In March, when asked by a reporter whether he would appear with Trump in Maine, Congressman Poliquin allowed “an uncomfortable pause<http://stateandcapitol.bangordailynews.com/2016/03/18/poliquins-uncomfortable-pause-on-donald-trump/>” to hang in the air as he waited for an elevator.

In a Facebook post yesterday<https://www.facebook.com/mittromney/posts/10153487016861121>, Gov. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, called Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns “disqualifying.”

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Katie Baker, Communications Director
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