Ex-Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2016, is running for a third term after a brief retirement to Florida, and this time around, he hardly talks about Donald Trump.
When then-Maine Gov. Paul LePage endorsed Donald Trump in 2016, he credited himself as a prototype for the insurgent presidential candidate.
Democrats aren't going to let voters forget LePage's tumultuous time in office, when he occasionally acted and sounded a lot like Trump. LePage attracted national headlines when he told the Portland chapter of the NAACP to "kiss my butt," made racist remarks about drug dealers who impregnate "white" girls and accused a lawmaker of screwing over state taxpayers "without providing Vaseline.
Raised in poverty and homeless for a time as a boy, LePage, 73, is an unabashed conservative whose past controversies often overshadowed his political achievements, such as lowering the tax burden, shrinking welfare rolls, overhauling the pension system and paying back millions of dollars of hospital debt.
LePage's senior adviser Brent Littlefield said LePage was astounded when Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and that LePage fears the country is in danger of tearing itself apart. LePage issued a statement amid the violence supporting law enforcement and telling those involved in the riot "to leave and go home."
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