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Bobby Charles supported Trumpās āOne Big Beautiful Bill,ā backing health care cuts that would leave tens of thousands of Mainers without coverage, including Medicaid recipients, trigger massive Medicare reductions, and rescind tax credits that experts warned would increase energy costs for Mainers. He supported work requirements and the largest SNAP cuts in history, making it harder for Maine families to afford food. Charles praised Trumpās DOGE agenda and said he wanted to bring it to Maine, even as those policies disrupted Social Security services, cut funding for nonprofits, and threatened thousands of jobs across the state. Charles also pushed an extreme anti-abortion agenda, promoted election fraud claims that Maine voters overwhelmingly rejected, and supported sweeping changes to Maineās elections. Charles also floated a Maine version of Floridaās failed āAlligator Alcatraz,ā called for closing the northern border, and embraced immigration policies that would cause legal, environmental, and economic harm to Maine communities.
- In 2025, Bobby Charles supported Trumpās āOne Big Beautiful Bill,ā which was estimated to kick 17 million Americans off their health insurance, including nearly 12 million Americans who rely on Medicaid. Experts found that Trumpās āOne Big Beautiful Billā and the expiration of Affordable Care Act tax credits would result in 33,000 Mainers becoming uninsured by 2034. The bill was projected to leave more than 57,300 Mainers without health care coverage by 2034.
- In 2025, Charles declared he was ātotally on sideā with Trumpās agenda and backed work requirements that would restrict Mainersā ability to receive public assistance. Trumpās āOne Big Beautiful Billā was projected to leave 34,700 Medicaid recipients in Maine without health care coverage.
Message: Bobby Charles supported ripping away health care from tens of thousands of Mainers to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
- In 2025, Bobby Charles supported Trumpās āOne Big Beautiful Bill,ā which the Congressional Budget Office estimated would trigger $500 billion in cuts to Medicare.
Message: Bobby Charles supported making massive cuts to health care services seniors rely on.
¶ Bobby Charles Supported Stripping SNAP Benefits From Maine Families
- In 2025, Bobby Charles supported Trumpās āOne Big Beautiful Bill,ā which made the largest cut to SNAP in history. Charles also declared he was ātotally on sideā with Trumpās agenda and backed work requirements that would restrict Mainersā ability to receive public assistance. More than 77,400 households in Maine relied on SNAP to meet basic food needs.
Message: Bobby Charles supported making food more expensive for Maine families.
¶ Bobby Charles Wonāt Protect Maineās NONPROFITS, SERVICES, OR SOCIAL SECURITY From TRump
Message: As Trumpās DOGE disrupted services at the Social Security Administration, laid off Maine workers, and cut funding for Maine nonprofits, Bobby Charles pledged to replicate those policies at the state-level.
¶ Bobby Charles Supported Increases To Energy Costs In Maine
- In 2025, Bobby Charles publicly endorsed Trumpās āOne Big Beautiful Billā and framed Trumpās national agenda as the agenda he wanted to bring to Maine. According to experts, the āOne Big Beautiful Billāsā repeal of clean energy tax credits would raise annual household energy costs in Maine and increase electricity rates statewide.
- Energy Innovation warned that Trumpās āOne Big Beautiful Billāsā phase out of clean energy tax credits would reduce electricity generation capacity, raise energy prices for Maine households annually by $54 by 2030 and $80 by 2035, and raise gasoline costs by more than $700 annually by 2035. Center for American Progress also warned that the phase out of the tax credits also put more than 4,000 jobs at risk and raise the cost of living for Mainers.
Message: Bobby Charles supported raising energy bills in Maine to give tax cuts to the wealthy.
- In 2025, Bobby Charles pushed an extreme anti-choice agenda, declaring himself āunapologetically pro-life.ā Charles called for limiting abortion access and ending public funding for abortion. He also opposed pregnancy-related health care coverage for people under 21 and undocumented immigrants, framing access to care as something he would roll back if elected governor.
Message: Bobby Charles threatened the reproductive freedoms of Mainers.
- In 2025, Charles promoted election fraud claims, accused Democrats and immigrants of undermining Maineās voting system, and encouraged voters to support Question 1, which would have imposed voter ID and absentee voting restrictions. Charles claimed that Maine elections were ācorruptā and pushed voter ID and absentee voting restrictions, despite Maine voters later rejecting Question 1 by a more than 25-point margin in 2025.
Message: Bobby Charles was a threat to Maine elections and promoted election conspiracy theories.
¶ Bobby Charles Called For The Closure Of The Northern Border And A Replica Of The Failed āAlligator Alcatrazā In Maine
- In 2025, Bobby Charles publicly praised Ron DeSantisā āAlligator Alcatrazā detention facility and floated the idea of creating a similar immigrant detention camp in Maine. Ron DeSantis defended the Everglades detention center by claiming surrounding wildlife provided ānatural security,ā despite the facilityās risks to wetlands and South Floridaās drinking water supply. Floridaās āAlligator Alcatrazā detention center faced a court-ordered shutdown after judges found the state and federal governments failed to account for environmental and legal requirements.
- That same year, Bobby Charles said he wanted to close the northern border while aligning himself with Trumpās immigration agenda. At the same time, Trumpās border and tariff policies cut Canadian travel to Maine down by nearly 750,000 crossings and contributed to a 3.3% decline in retail sales and nearly 5% drops in restaurant and lodging sales in border communities. Trump also escalated diplomatic tensions with U.S. allies by posting an AI-generated image depicting Canada and Greenland under U.S. control, adding to cross-border uncertainty.
Message: Bobby Charles supported extreme immigration policies that would cause legal, environmental, and economic harm in Maine.