Posted on 06/04/2025 6:38:17 PM PDT by T Ruth
A new poll from the Congressional Leadership Fund, first released to Notus on Wednesday, gives former Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage a notable lead over incumbent Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) in the race for Maine now highly contested Second Congressional District (CD2) House seat.
The poll found that Gov. LePage is leading Rep. Golden by five points among likely voters. Forty-eight percent of respondents said they would support the former governor, while just 43 percent said they would vote for the incumbent.
The Republican candidate’s lead did not appear to be the exclusive result of LePage’s significant name recognition as a two-term successful governor.
The Congressional Leadership Fund, a political action committee dedicated to electing Republicans to Congress across the country, also conducted a generic ballot poll, asking voters which party they would support without mentioning specific House candidates.
The generic ballot gave the Republicans an even larger lead, with 47 percent saying they would vote for the Republican, and only 38 percent supporting the Democrat.
LePage announced his run for the CD2 U.S. House seat earlier this month and appears likely to earn the Republican nomination, particularly after last year’s nominee, former state Rep. Austin Theriault, ruled out another run and endorsed LePage on Monday.
Golden confirmed on Tuesday that he would be running for a fifth term in the House, dispelling speculation that he could be preparing for a gubernatorial run or an attempt at Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-Maine) Senate seat.
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Conducted by Ragnar Research Partners, the Congressional Leadership Fund’s survey was fielded between April 13-15 among 400 respondents in the district, two weeks before LePage announced his candidacy and also before [the Maine] State Auditor ... said he is considering challenging Golden in the Democrat primary. It has a margin of error of 4.9%.
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Poll was conducted "two weeks before LePage announced his candidacy."
So if Susan Collins kicks the bucket, she might be replaced by a real Republican?
Come on. Golden’s district is GOP and we never showed up to take him out. A former governor should do the trick.
From your keyboard to God’s ears!
2nd poll in 2 days that show a potential GOP takeover. Wouldn’t it be interesting if we actually HELD the House.
This race is for a House seat. Collins is in the Senate.
Where are you getting that from this article? This is about a House race in a more conservative district. Maine as a whole is leftist.
The Second District....80% of the state....is deep red when you go inland away from the coast.
Trump carried this district in 2016, 2020 and 2024 by double digits giving him one electoral vote.
Southeast Maine is north Massachusetts.
I would really doubt that she gets replaced by a pubbies. The southern part of the state would prevent that.
Southwest Maine...
Golden is a disgrace to the Marine Corps.
Does Maine still have ranked-choice voting? That is the only reason Golden was in that seat to begin with. If it is still there the polls don’t mean a lot.
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