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Posted on 09/22/2021 6:57:53 PM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will endorse former Republican Gov. Paul LePage as he seeks a third term in the governor's mansion, the senator’s office confirmed to The Hill.
“As Maine recovers from the pandemic, Paul is the best candidate to grow our economy,” Collins will say in a prerecorded one-minute video, according to the Portland Press Herald, which obtained the video and first reported Collins’s coming announcement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Her endorsement of LePage is significant.
The writing is on the wall. The days of the moderates is over.
Can’t imagine her not doing it. Governors have no control over abortion. Let him be the bad guy.
The Twittsewer Prog bluechecks are having entire litters of kittens over her recent abortion pronouncement on Nanzi’s “Kill ‘Em Up To A Week After They’re Born” legislation...
Maine has RCV.
And those RCV-enabled machines.
I don’t think Deep State is too worried about LePage, which was why Collins was allowed to pull her BS.
HE KNEW HE’D LOSE TO ANGUS KING if he challenged him.
HE KNEW HE’D LOSE TO ANGUS KING if he challenged him.
Maine had better do two things:
Repeal RCV.
And go back to dumb voting machines.
Frankly, I would be quite pleased to see Maine leave the States and join Canada. Aside from lobsters it only produces that which only Nupercaine can assuage.
Is LePage a conservative, or maybe to New England’s liking quasi-libertarian? You are right, there is no longer a place for moderates, Democrat or Republican. It’s not Republicans whose views have shifted; Democrats blew past European Socialists and went full Marxist.
I think LePage wins this. His campaign needs to keep the 360,00 people that voted for Trump engaged. I think his campaign manager was in charge of the Trump’s Maine effort in 2020, so they should have a good idea who those folks are. I don’t see much enthusiasm for Mills, I don’t think she’s coming close to Biden’s 435,000 votes.
LePage did a great job in Maine for the 8 years he was governor.
LePage is Trump without the money or big hair.
He is the real deal.
I don't think she has much choice in the matter. It would be seen as "sour grapes" if she refused to endorse the GOP front runner (and political suicide if she endorsed the RAT Governor or an Independent over a popular former Governor in her own party). What else was she gonna do, try and find an "electable centrist" RINO to "draft" last minute for the primary?
Per Wikipedia, she (and fellow RINO Olympia Snowe) ALSO endorsed LePage the last time around (when he ran in 2014), so this is hardly shocking news:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Maine_gubernatorial_election
I think it may be more personal for her rather than political - she took the race waged against her last year very personally based on her public comments. Susan Collins using pointed language like calling Schumer a liar is very unlike her - and she said this *after* the race was over, not in the heat of the campaign.
She has some personal, rather than political, scores to settle.
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