This remote Maine community split down the middle in 2020. Which way will The Forks go this year? [Video]

WEST FORKS PLANTATION — Shannon Thibodeau doesn’t hesitate when asked whom he’s voting for in the presidential election.

“Trump all the way,” said Thibodeau, 46, on a coffee break at Berry’s General Store on a recent afternoon.

His response is a common one outside the store, the only one serving West Forks and its neighbor across the river, The Forks.

The two communities – classified as plantations because they don’t have enough residents to form a town – are about 50 miles south of the Canadian border in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, an area that Donald Trump won by seven percentage points in 2020.

Trump and Joe Biden tied in the last presidential race in The Forks, making the community of about 50 residents stand out among others in Maine. When the ballots were counted on election night, Trump had received 18 votes and so had Biden.

Residents say the …