LePage may end up in DC as he has made comments about challenging left-wing Sen. Anus King (oops, Angus — Anus King would be Michael Michaud) in 2018. He would be an instant treasure there, unbought and unbossed.
Yes, Gov. LePage’s term ends after the 2018 elections, and he has expressed interest in running for Angus King’s Senate seat. I think that LePage would have an excellent chance of winning. If King stays an Independent, there will be a Democrat nominee that, even if he takes only 10%, would allow LePage to win with 45%. And if King were to switch officially to the RATs, he would lose a lot of the independent and moderate-Republican vote that allows him to win. Perhaps King will try to have it both ways à la Bernie Sanders and run in and win the RAT primary but then become an indie again so that no RAT is on the ballot, but I’m not sure if Maine law would permit that, and besides it would cause him to lose a lot of his right-of-center support.
Paul LePage would be the most conservative U.S. Senator from ME in decades, if not ever. And the other seat, the one for which RINO Susan Collins was reelected in 2014, could open up right after the 2018 elections if Collins runs for and wins the governorship (about which she has expressed interest). While I would precer that ME not have a liberal like Collins as governor, I think that I would take it if in return a conservative such as Congressman Bruce Poliquin is appointed to serve until the November 2020 election (where hopefully he’d have a leg up on the Democrat nominee). (Of course, if Collins wins the governorship, she would have to decide when to resign from the Senate, and depending on when she does her replacement could be named by Gov. LePage, the President of the Senate of ME that acts as gov. for a couple of days when LePage resigns early to take his Senate seat, or by Collins herself.)