Paul LePage Poised to Join House After Jared Golden’s Exit

“Voters in a rare House district that went red for president and blue for Congress are on the verge of replacing one of the most centrist House Democrats with a hard-line conservative who called himself ‘Donald Trump before Donald Trump,'” the Washington Post reports.

“Election forecasters see Maine’s former Republican governor Paul LePage as the likely winner in this rural district despite his history of incendiary comments such as ‘Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers.'”