- Paul LePageRepublican✓ Verified$3.2M raised
- Matt DunlapDemocratic✓ Verified$2.7M raised
Where they stand
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Where they differ: Paul LePage supports growing the economy by creating jobs, lowering taxes, and cutting red tape, and he supports securing the border by finishing the wall, ending illegal immigration, and restoring law and order 14. Matt Dunlap supports fighting tariffs and foreign wars to lower prices and create good-paying jobs and affordable housing, including proposing a revolving federal loan fund for affordable-housing developers, and he opposes ongoing foreign wars, particularly the war in Iran, supporting a war powers resolution to end it to reduce costs 231415.
AI-written comparison of the sourced entries below. Generated Oct 16, 2026.
| Issue | Paul LePageRepublican | Matt DunlapDemocratic |
|---|---|---|
| Economy & Jobs | LePage supports growing the economy by creating jobs, lowering taxes, and cutting red tape to help Maine families. | Dunlap supports fighting tariffs and foreign wars to lower prices and create good-paying jobs and affordable housing for working families. Dunlap proposes a revolving federal loan fund to make financing more available to affordable-housing developers. |
| Where they differ on Economy & Jobs: Paul LePage supports growing the economy by creating jobs, lowering taxes, and cutting red tape to help Maine families 1. Matt Dunlap supports fighting tariffs and foreign wars to lower prices and create good-paying jobs and affordable housing for working families 2. He also proposes a revolving federal loan fund to make financing more available to affordable-housing developers 3. | ||
| Healthcare | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Dunlap supports protecting and expanding Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, fighting Big Pharma price hikes, and endorses Medicare for All to ensure affordable care. |
| Immigration | LePage supports securing the border by finishing the wall, ending illegal immigration, and restoring law and order. LePage says stopping illegal immigrants from taking available housing should be a first step in addressing housing costs. | Dunlap says ICE should exist in some capacity but should not function the way the agency does today. |
| Where they differ on Immigration: Paul LePage supports securing the border by finishing the wall, ending illegal immigration, and restoring law and order 1. He also says stopping illegal immigrants from taking available housing should be a first step in addressing housing costs 2. Matt Dunlap says ICE should exist in some capacity but should not function the way the agency does today 3. | ||
| Public Safety & Crime | LePage supports restoring law and order as part of securing the border and fighting illegal immigration. | Dunlap opposes foreign wars that increase costs for families and supports ending them to reduce economic burdens. |
| Where they differ on Public Safety & Crime: Paul LePage supports restoring law and order as part of securing the border and fighting illegal immigration 1. Matt Dunlap opposes foreign wars that increase costs for families and supports ending them to reduce economic burdens 2. | ||
| Abortion | No public position found. Check their site ↗ | Dunlap supports a woman’s right to make her own reproductive health decisions and believes safe access to reproductive health care should be a constitutional right. |
| Taxes & Government Spending | LePage supports lowering taxes and eliminating wasteful government spending to reduce inflation. | Dunlap supports making billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share to fund government services and protect working families. |
| Where they differ on Taxes & Government Spending: Paul LePage supports lowering taxes and eliminating wasteful government spending to reduce inflation 1. Matt Dunlap supports making billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share to fund government services and protect working families 2. | ||
| Energy & Environment | LePage wants the president to restrict diesel exports and to suspend state and federal fuel taxes to ease energy costs. | Dunlap opposes tariffs and foreign wars that have increased gas prices, impacting affordability for families. |
| Where they differ on Energy & Environment: Paul LePage wants the president to restrict diesel exports and to suspend state and federal fuel taxes to ease energy costs 1. Matt Dunlap opposes tariffs and foreign wars that have increased gas prices, impacting affordability for families 2. | ||
| Foreign Policy & Defense | LePage opposes invoking the War Powers Act over Iran, saying he backs preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons while urging the president to resolve the conflict quickly. | Dunlap opposes ongoing foreign wars, particularly the war in Iran, and supports ending them to reduce costs and refocus spending. Dunlap supports a war powers resolution to end the Iran war, saying it would quickly lower oil and heating costs. |
| Where they differ on Foreign Policy & Defense: Paul LePage opposes invoking the War Powers Act over Iran and supports preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons while urging the president to resolve the conflict quickly 1. Matt Dunlap opposes ongoing foreign wars, particularly the war in Iran, supports ending them to reduce costs and refocus spending, and supports a war powers resolution to end the Iran war to quickly lower oil and heating costs 23. | ||