This isn’t a love story.
“I think people saw me out … with a double-stroller every day,” Gideon toldMaine Public.
She’s been making waves ever since.
Her colleagues certainly do.
It led, perThe New York Times, to more bipartisan cooperation.
Her progressive platform is attracting an unprecedented amount of financial support.
The staggering figure is more than twice what Susan Collins has managed to fundraise.
Perhaps Gideon’s husband has helped her fundraising efforts.
Ben, perMaine Public, worked on former US Representative Tom Allen’s gubernatorial and congressional campaigns.
Back then, the two candidates, combined, raised only $14 million.
She’s still sitting on a comfortable $20 million, ample funds to combat any late October surprises.
The traces that Gideon left in her high school’s 1989 yearbook paint a picture of popularity.
PerEG News, Gideon was a cheerleader who did track and field and who was voted into prom court.
A former teacher toldEG Newsthat Gideon was “bright, intelligent [and] very inquisitive.”
And, then there’s this.
She’s always had a thing for politics.
Behind Gideon’s idyllic American upbringing is another all-American story: that of hardworking immigrants.
Her mother, on the other hand, was born in America.
But her mother’s Armenian parents moved to the US, fleeing genocide.
