Vice President JD Vance to visit Maine again on Monday
Vice President JD Vance greets the crowd before making remarks during an appearance at Bangor International Airport on May 14. The vice president will return to Maine on Monday to speak in Brewer. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to come to Maine on Monday.
Vance will be in Brewer to deliver remarks at a manufacturing facility, the White House said in a news release Thursday evening. He will speak at CompoTech, a defense and composites manufacturer.
It wasn’t clear what Vance would speak about. The White House did not provide more details about the visit in its news release, and the vice president’s office did not reply to an inquiry for more information Thursday evening.
The event will begin at 11 a.m., according to a registration page for people interested in attending, with doors opening at 9 a.m.
A spokesperson for the Maine Republican Party did not reply Thursday night to inquiries for comment and more information.
A Maine Democratic Party spokesperson said Vance was coming “to Maine to pitch the Trump administration’s failing agenda.”
This is Vance’s second visit to Maine in the past few months. The vice president was here in May for a rally at Bangor International Airport, where he spoke to about 400 attendees, largely about alleged Medicaid fraud. Vance repeatedly blamed immigrants who are in the country illegally for widespread fraud schemes in places like Minnesota and also blasted Democratic Gov. Janet Mills for not working more cooperatively to root out suspected fraud in Maine.
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Democrats pushed back against Vance’s May remarks, including Mills, who called it “a weak attempt to distract from the Trump administration’s failing agenda.” A local progressive group organized a protest outside the event.
This story was updated on Aug. 21 to include more details about Vance’s visit.
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Drew is the night reporter for the Portland Press Herald. He previously covered South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth for the Sentry, Leader and Southern Forecaster. Though he is from Massachusetts,. More by Drew Johnson
