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TexasTowelie

(116,698 posts)
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 10:05 PM Dec 2017

LePage Says Report That Trump Urging Him To Run For Senate Is 'Fake News'

Quoting anonymous White House advisers, The Washington Post reports that President Trump plans to call Maine Gov. Paul LePage and ask him to run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by independent Sen. Angus King.

This, after LePage announced last May that he was not interested in running. In a brief interview outside his office Thursday, this was the governor's response when asked about the report: “It's fake news!”

According to the Post, LePage’s name came up during a discussion by the President and his advisors about potential candidates in several states, including Maine.

When asked if calling it fake news was all he was going to say, LePage made it clear he doesn’t want to talk about it, 'cause it’s a personal matter and you guys shouldn’t be bothering me about this.”

Read more: http://mainepublic.org/post/lepage-says-report-trump-urging-him-run-senate-fake-news#stream/0

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LePage Says Report That Trump Urging Him To Run For Senate Is 'Fake News' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2017 OP
they asked his wife first dlwickham Dec 2017 #1
Mainers want him to run Mopar151 Dec 2017 #2
LrPage run against Angus King? MarianJack Dec 2017 #3

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
3. LrPage run against Angus King?
Sat Dec 9, 2017, 08:05 AM
Dec 2017

I can Alost hear the celebrations at King's office.

We'll know for sure that he will the moment that Eliot Cutler announces HIS candidacy!

PEACE!

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