Maine’s Paul LePage has reversed the curse

There was one tiny sliver of good news in the election returns Tuesday in New England – and it’s a shocker.

Former Gov. Paul LePage was elected to Congress from the northern, Second Congressional District in Maine.

Yesterday afternoon, his hack Democrat opponent conceded. I’m stunned. I know, LePage had a 5,418-vote lead, but so what?

Maine is like the old Soviet Union. It doesn’t matter who votes, the only thing that matters is who counts the votes.

Maine has ranked-choice voting, and you know what ranked-choice voting means.

"Maine has ranked-choice voting, and you know what ranked-choice voting means."

It’s never over until the Democrat wins. The Democrats keep counting until the guy with the most votes loses. At least if the guy with the most votes is a Republican.

Democrats cheat. It’s as simple as that. They steal elections and they get away with it.

That’s why I can’t believe the Democrat, Matt Dunlap, threw in the towel yesterday afternoon. He’s a damn traitor, like Haley Stevens in Michigan.

Dunlap always had the cheat card in his back pocket. Democrats never leave home without it.

As Joe Biden put it so memorably in 2020, “We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter-fraud organization in the history of American politics.”

Dementia Joe was bragging about it.

LePage’s apparent flip of a remote Congressional district to red despite overwhelming odds, i.e., the Democrat cheat factor, hasn’t gotten much attention in the larger GOP bloodbath.

But it is significant. Until now, New England, the entire six-state region, hadn’t sent a single Republican to the US House of Representatives since 2018.

There are 21 Congressmen from New England. Until yesterday, the GOP was 0-for-21 in the last four elections, dating back to 2018.

That was the year the GOP incumbent in the Second Maine District, Bruce Poliquin, defeated his Democrat opponent Jared Golden, by 2,000 votes.

But then ranked-choice voting kicked in. The best description of this legal fraud came in a movie classic from 1947, Key Largo. The gangster, played by Edward G. Robinson, explained how he used to steal elections in Chicago:

“Count the votes over and over again,” he sneers, waving a cigar, “till they added up right.”

LePage was governor when they stole the election from Poliquin. I asked him about it Wednesday afternoon, before Dunlap conceded.

“They had four people on the ballot, Poliquin and Golden, and two ‘independents’ from Portland, who didn’t even live in the district. That kept Bruce under 50 percent so they got to keep counting and counting and counting….”

And no Republican has ever been elected to the US House from anywhere in New England again. Is that gerrymandering? You know, Democrats are very, very concerned about gerrymandering – unless it benefits them.

In 2024, Donald Trump got 3,081,307 votes in New England. Yet somehow the MAGA electorate doesn’t have a single representative in the US House? Not one?

But now Paul LePage has reversed the curse.

Thank goodness. Maybe LePage’s victory is, as one of my texters said yesterday, like winning the bingo game on the Titanic. But that’s still better than losing the bingo game, isn’t it?

This election cycle, unlike in Alaska, the Maine Democrats neglected to put any fake candidates on the ballot. That’s the key to making ranked-choice voting work. Am I right, Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr.?

In northern Maine this time, all the Democrats had was a guy who got a few write-ins. They got lazy. Too lazy to steal.

“It’s not enough,” LePage said on my show before Dunlap conceded. “The only way they can cheat now is if the secretary of state does some fancy footwork.”

This would be the same secretary of state who desperately tried to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot. Who successfully struck a ballot question that would have banned males in girls’ sports. That was going to win at the polls, so they had to get rid of it. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, here in Massachusetts.

The secretary of state who pulled these stunts in Maine is from Massachusetts, by the way. Need I say more?

“The corruption in Maine,” LePage said, “is very well-documented.”

Regime-controlled media were fantasizing yesterday about somehow getting LePage under 50 percent. That would mean a ranked-choice recount, which means the Republican loses, 100 percent of the time.

Forget that Donald Trump carried that district three times, the same number of times LePage won the Second when he was running for governor.

The way the Democrats look at it is, they stole that seat fair and square in 2018 and now they own it. Well maybe not fair and square, but they own the district anyway. Finders keepers, Republicans weepers.

So what if their hack lost by 5,418 votes – what’s theirs is theirs and what’s yours is theirs. It’s the Democrat way.

Before Dunlap’s unexpected concession yesterday, to LePage I suggested a possible Democrat scenario: A moose appears at a town hall in the remotest part of Aroostock County – maybe Madawaska, on the Canadian border, 440 miles north of Boston. The moose shows up with, say, 10,000 “lost” ballots, which break 9,997 for Dunlap and 3 for LePage.

“Sure, they could show up with a couple of baskets-ful of ballots,” LePage said. “But we can’t see where there is a path, which is why we declared victory and now they have to prove us wrong.”

Paul LePage was right, and I was wrong. In the end, the Democrats didn’t steal the seat again. I guess it was too big to rig.

The lesson for Republicans is, you can’t lose ‘em all. Thank goodness.