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(In reality, according to data provided by the Maine Center for Economic Policy, despite LePage's rhetoric about helping down-at-the-heels northern mill towns, the economic growth during his two terms in office was overwhelmingly concentrated in the cities of the south; from 2007 to 2014, a period that included most of LePage's first term, rural Maine saw a period of economic contraction.) But she worries that when candidates for high office like LePage opportunistically glom on to Trump's false narrative about a stolen election in 2020, it "undermines the fabric of our democracy" - not only in Maine but in the country at large. FEATURES ON A CLOUDY SPRING MORNING, MAINE'S EX-GOVERNOR, 73-YEAR-old Paul LePage, journeyed to the heart of his state's largest, most diverse, and most progressive city to preside over the opening of a new Multicultural Community Center. During LePage's time in office, the center's economists found, Maine was the only state in the country that did not see an increase in the number of residents with medical coverage in the four years after passage of the Affordable Care Act. [Extracted from the article]

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