Maine Gov. Janet Mills: Republicans 'Didn't Use To Be Weird'

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) shot back at a question asked during a governors panel by saying not all Republicans are weird.

Actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the Democratic Governors Association hosted a panel with the eight Democratic women who are state governors. At the end of the panel discussion, Louis-Dreyfus asked the governors questions that were submitted by her podcast listeners, including one asking why Republicans are so weird.

“They didn’t use to be weird,” Mills said. “I grew up in a Republican family, and we have a solid group of Republicans in Maine who are not supporting Trump, who are supporting Kamala Harris because they know the traditional Republican Party is not about Trump and never was. He has purged anybody who was free-thinking, and the traditional conservative Republican, they don’t have a place to go anymore, so they’re not all weird. But the Trump MAGA Republicans are weird.”

Louis-Dreyfus, who is known for her sitcom roles in “Seinfeld” and “Veep,” in which she played a U.S. vice president, opened the panel with a quip about Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), saying Donald Trump’s running mate would call the panel “a coven of semi-menstruating witches.” She then gave the governors a pop quiz, asking them to name their state flower. (They all passed.) Louis-Dreyfus spoke with the governors about a variety of topics, including the status of women’s reproductive rights since the loss of Roe v. Wade’s protections in 2022.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said that after Roe was overturned, she went to a vigil at Prospect Park in Brooklyn and said it was a “moment of pain” but also strength.

“I held sobbing women in my arms,” Hochul said. “It broke my heart to know that something that my mother’s generation fought