Former Gov. Paul LePage cruised through the Republican gubernatorial primary in Maine unopposed on Tuesday, officially setting up a face-off against incumbent Democrat Gov. Janet Mills for November.
in a statement as polls were closing, “The entire country is waking up to what I’ve known from the beginning: We can defeat Janet Mills in November.”
Maine Gov. Janet Mills arrives at a coffee shop during an informal walking tour, May 25, 2022, in Hallowell. his campaign in July 2021, saying at the time, “We must work toward building a better future based on individual liberty, fiscal responsibility, and an economy which empowers everyone including our rural communities.”in March she would pursue reelection, setting up the fight with LePage and contending she had “much left” to do as governor.
Roughly around the same time LePage was running for his first term in office, the Maine Republican Party adopted the tagline “working people vote Republican” as a means of sequestering the Democrat Party — historically a party focused on the working class and unions — as an out-of-touch party of elites.
LePage’s heavy focus on economic issues aligns with national polling data showing Americans are overwhelmingly concerned with inflation and costs of necessities like groceries and gas. Gas in particular had been hovering at high rates for months butLePage zeroed in on gas prices back in March,Mills to cut the state’s fuel tax, in line with temporary suspensions or cuts that some other governors had begun implementing.
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