Gonna be fun to watch it all unfold.
MAGA - anywhere we can! :)
Turning LePage in Maine
I get to watch this from ground zero here in Portland Maine. I hoping the Republican side is not close and the three opponents concede on election night. The Dems will be fighting until September over thier nominee who is probably going to come in third anyway.
Maine has a long history of independents running for and winning the governor’s race. In the last 20 years they have been liberals although they are generally center of the democrat. This year’s independent has no real name cache or money. She is a former democrat and is going to just split thier vote.
Another Maine event
Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-Maine) has been a top Democratic target since he first ran for Congress in 2014. This year, he will face one of two Democratic rivals: State House Assistant Majority Leader Jared Golden or environmentalist Lucas St. Clair, whose family started the popular Burt’s Bees skin care line.
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Poliquin has vanquished tough foes in the past and Trump won the district by 10 points in 2016.
There is a third person in the race on the Dem side. I don’t know how he will factor into the results which will also be via rank choice.
His foe in his two races was anything but tough. She was a professional statehouse politician. She now heads Emily’s List.
Already this year, the two parties have nominated more women for governor’s races than any previous year, by far.
It is possible here in Maine that the republicans will nominate a woman and the dems a man setting up a dilimea for the dems who insist we need to elect women. The independent is a woman so they may migrate to her.