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US voters share why they cast their ballots – from frustration with Trump to affordability concerns
‘It’s the disregard for the rule of law. It just seems like they’re thumbing their nose at it’
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In the battleground state of Maine, Todd Cox, 63, has supported the state’s incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins not once, but twice, in previous elections. Not this time.
On Tuesday, Cox, a technology professional, cast his vote for Collins’ Democratic challenger Troy Jackson – driven not by pressing local issues, but broader concern “for the direction the country is going in”, he said.
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Robert Tait in Portland, Maine, Joseph Gedeon in Dearborn, Michigan, Ed Pilkington in Anchorage, Alaska, George Chidi in Atlanta, Georgia, Rachel Leingang in Des Moines, Iowa, and Lex McMenamin in Rochester, New Hampshire · Tue, Nov 3, 2026, 2:30 PM
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‘It’s the disregard for the rule of law. It just seems like they’re thumbing their nose at it’
In the battleground state of Maine, Todd Cox, 63, has supported the state’s incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins not once, but twice, in previous elections. Not this time.
On Tuesday, Cox, a technology professional, cast his vote for Collins’ Democratic challenger Troy Jackson – driven not by pressing local issues, but broader concern “for the direction the country is going in”, he said.
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