Maine Gov. Paul LePage said at his town hall meeting in Lewiston Wednesday night that he hopes Donald Trump will pick him to be part of his administration should he win in the fall.
And if not?
“I said earlier that if I’m not into the Trump administration, I will be running against Angus King [in 2018],” LePage said. “Now, don’t tell my wife. She hasn’t said yes yet.”
“But what I have told Donald Trump is this: You know, I want to save the federal government some money … I want to do my part,” the two-time governor said, according to the Portland Press Herald. “So what about if I become the ambassador to Canada in the summer and Jamaica in the winter?”
LePage is an independent, whose term expires at the start of 2019. King is also an independent and was Maine’s governor from 1995 to 2003; his term expires in 2019 as well.
LePage also shot down the notion of being Trump’s vice president when asked at the town hall meeting, saying with a laugh, “We’re too much alike.”
Like Trump, LePage has said a variety of controversial comments.
Earlier in the year, he encouraged Maine’s residents to “load up and get rid of the drug dealers” to deal with the state’s heroin epidemic. He also took heat for saying that drug traffickers from nearby states with names like “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” come in, deal drugs and often “impregnate a young white girl” all before leaving.
