Headline: Downballot, 3/10/2025
This is the guy who refers to himself as "Donald Trump before Donald Trump."
David Nir and Jeff Singer report:
The former governor, though, has had a tough time sticking with whatever his current job—or even state—happens to be. In 2016, LePage threatened to resign from the governorship only to characteristically reverse himself just hours later. While he did serve out the remainder of his second and final term, he registered to vote in Florida the day Mills succeeded him.
"I'm done with politics," LePage said in early 2019. Less than two years later, he declared he'd challenge Mills with a defiant maxim of, "If I'm breathing, I'm running." It was the rare threat the former governor did indeed make good on, but his comeback ended in a stinging 56-42 defeat. LePage re-registered in Florida not long after, and Shepherd says he's spent most of the last two years in the Sunshine State.
But while LePage may have one more relocation left in him, Republicans would have good reason to fret that the truckload of baggage he'd haul back north could damage him even in the conservative 2nd District. While in office, LePage regularly made headlines as an unfiltered proto-Trump with a penchant for commentary that was both offensive and untrue.
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