Maine Gov. Janet Mills, who has presided over some of the strictest COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the country, was reelected to a second term as governor in the rural New England state.
The 74-year-old Democrat beat out Republican challenger Paul LePage, himself a two-term Maine governor from 2011 to 2019.
According to the Associated Press, Mills won with 54.4 percent of the vote to LePage’s 43.7 percent.
In a politically colorful state like Maine where pro-Second Amendment and pro-abortion politicians can often be found, the liberal Mills has wide appeal.
While she is a northern Mainer, her biggest support comes from the southern coastal regions where progressive Massachusetts transplants co-mingle with local bluebloods who inherited their standing as a result of their ancestors’ good fortune of buying cheap real estate that is now worth millions….