Kevin Miller
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443 appearances
25 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 27 Jul
Kevin Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But as Mara said, the challenge is, is that going to be enough to get past voters' just anger and frustration over the Trump agenda?
Yeah, it's interesting because right around the same time that the shooting, most recent shooting happened in Minneapolis involving Alex Preddy, ICE was launching a surge, an enforcement surge here in Maine.
This was enormously controversial.
It was targeting Maine's largest cities that have the most diverse populations.
We saw similar tactics of armed agents out on the streets in masks, pulling people out of cars, breaking windows.
And there was just this growing awareness
uneased and similar to what we've seen in other states, this opposition.
This was viewed politically as not being a very big benefit for Susan Collins if the situation in Maine kind of slid more towards like we were seeing in Minneapolis.
But then Senator Collins stepped in and personally intervened.
And according to Senator Collins, the Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, she agreed to end this enforcement surge because of her conversation.
So Senator Collins is basically saying, look, because of my influence and because of my experience and tenure, I was able to get ICE to withdraw or to reduce its presence in Maine.
And if you had a less experienced senator, they're not going to be able to do that.
Democrats are basically downplaying Senator Collins' role in this.
They say, look, the writing was already on the wall as far as what was happening in Minnesota.
ICE was starting to withdraw, and this was probably already going to happen.
And Democrats are also criticizing Senator Collins.
for continuing to support what is now, I guess, the Republican-backed proposal for Department of Homeland Security, which does provide some funding for body cameras and for de-escalation training, but doesn't contain all the reforms, the additional reforms that Democrats are saying are needed.
So the Democrats up here in Maine are saying, look, that's fine that she got involved and can take credit, but she's not doing enough to actually bring about the systemic reforms that we need at ICE.
That's part of what the dynamics that we're seeing from the Democratic candidates.
You have Graham Platner, who is from a very rural coastal area, who's saying, look, I'm the kind of person I, you know, my friends, my neighbors, they all voted for Trump.
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