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Overall, Biden won Rhode Island by 20.8 points, improving on Clinton's 15.5 point win. Rhode Island is the only state in which neither Biden nor Trump broke the all-time Democrat or all-time Republican record for most votes earned in a general election (Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower).
Portsmouth is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.The population was 17,871 at the 2020 U.S. census.Portsmouth is the second-oldest municipality in Rhode Island, after Providence; it was one of the four colonies which merged to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the others being Providence, Newport, and Warwick.
Barack Obama campaigning in Portsmouth, New Hampshire during his 2012 reelection bid in the 2012 US presidential election. He carried every New England state in 2008 and 2012. Elections in New England have been defined by the region's political and cultural history, demographics, economy, and its loyalty to particular U.S. political parties ...
McGaw, has served on a number of state and local committees. On the statewide level, McGaw was a board member for the Rhode Island Democratic Women's Caucus. Locally, McGaw is a current member of the Portsmouth Democratic Town Committee and has served on the Portsmouth Waste and Recycling Committee, and the 2020 Portsmouth Charter Review Committee.
Prior to around 1904, the legislature met in "five State Houses that were located in different towns in Rhode Island": Bristol, East Greenwich, Newport, Providence, and South Kingstown. [2] "In November, 1900, the Constitution was amended in favor of one session of the General Assembly each year, to commence at Providence on the first Tuesday ...
Rhode Island's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It includes all of Bristol and Newport counties, along with parts of Providence County, including most of the city of Providence. The district was made vacant in 2023 by the resignation of Democrat David Cicilline, who served from 2011 to ...
Dennis M. Canario [2] (born August 18, 1960) is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives representing District 71 from 2013 to 2021. He also served as deputy majority leader of the Rhode Island House of Representatives .
Rhode Island declared independence from the British Empire on May 4, 1776, two months before the U.S. Declaration of Independence was ratified. [5] However, despite this eagerness for independence, Rhode Island was also a stronghold for Anti-Federalism through the Country Party, which was widely popular among rural areas of Rhode Island and dominated the Rhode Island General Assembly from 1786 ...