Susan Collins To Endorse Paul LePage For Another Term As Maine Governor

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) is set to endorse fellow Republican Paul LePage for a third term as governor of the state he ran from 2011 to 2019.

Maine’s election laws prohibit governors from serving more than two consecutive terms, meaning LePage was unable to run in its last gubernatorial election. He is now eligible to serve another two terms, if voters favor the boorish businessman who once called himself “Donald Trump before Donald Trump” and “Baby Donald.”

“As Maine recovers from the pandemic, Paul is the best candidate to grow our economy,” Collins says in a campaign video obtained by the Portland Press Herald on Wednesday.

“Paul is a job creator, that’s his background, he’s done it before and he will do it again,” she says.

LePage’s brand of conservatism ― one that is proudly politically incorrect and loose with facts ― appears to run at odds with Collins’ centrist reputation, and the two politicians have bickered in the past, particularly over Trump. LePage declared that Collins was “done in Maine” after she declined to back Trump in 2016.