{"id":643317,"date":"2026-05-14T20:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:25:11","slug":"live-updates-jd-vance-talks-healthcare-fraud-in-bangor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643317\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: JD Vance talks healthcare fraud in Bangor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not every day that the vice president comes to town<\/p>\n

For some, the vice president\u2019s visit was a family affair.<\/p>\n

Destinee Theriault, 30, of Lewiston brought her 12-year-old stepson, Bentley Williams, and 11-year-old niece, Abigail McCann, to the rally.
Theriault wants them to be informed about current issues, and vice presidents don\u2019t come to Maine every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never got this experience, and the school was excited that they took it off to come up here,\u201d Theriault said.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Destinee Theriault, 30, of Lewiston brought her 12-year-old stepson, Bentley Williams, and 11-year-old niece, Abigail McCann, to the JD Vance rally in Bangor. Also in attendance: Her fianc\u00e9e, Kenneth Pinard, 35. (Randy Billings\/Staff)<\/p>\n

Her fiance, Kenneth Pinard, 35, said he experiences challenges with fraud and illegal immigration every day.<\/p>\n

Pinard said he hopes voters will give Republicans a chance to run the state this fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d really like to see Maine become a red state, because I think as long as Maine stays a blue state, the people that originally resided here are going to be chased out of here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Theriault said she plans vote for Republican Susan Collins this fall, but she is concerned about her age.<\/p>\n

Is she giving a chance to her likely opponent, Graham Platner, who is running a populist campaign?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, absolutely not, Theriault said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not every day that the vice president comes to town For some, the vice president\u2019s visit was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-643317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}