Report: LePage urged Republican governors to disavow Trump less than week before endorsement
Source: Portland Press Herald
Gov. Paul LePage privately called on his fellow Republican governors to disavow Donald Trump less than a week before LePage publicly endorsed the Republican presidential front-runner, according a newspaper report published Saturday.
The New York Times reported that LePage erupted in frustration at a Washington, D.C., meeting of Republican governors on Feb. 20. Sitting around a boardroom one day after being warned that Trump’s nomination would doom the party in November’s elections, LePage urged his fellow governors to write an open letter “to the people” disavowing the divisive front-runner, the Times reported.
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On Friday, six days later, LePage told Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr that he was now supporting Trump. LePage had previously supported New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for president, but Christie had dropped out of the race and ended up endorsing Trump hours before LePage did on Friday.
Noting that the Times did not cite a source for the governor’s “supposed remarks,” made in a private governors-only meeting that was closed to media and most staff, Peter Steele, director of communications for LePage, said Saturday the governor endorsed Trump because they both have a business background and they both come from outside the political establishment.
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