Gov. Paul LePage suggested Wednesday that he would be interested in a job in a hypothetical Donald Trump administration and, if he didn’t get one, he would run against Maine’s U.S. Sen. Angus King....

He received some of the biggest applause for his comments about Trump and King, however, when asked about his political aspirations. At the suggestion of a possible vice presidency, LePage laughed and said, “We’re too much alike.”

He then said: “If I don’t go to work in the Trump administration, I will probably seek another position in politics,” clarifying later that he would run against King, a former Maine governor and independent. LePage’s second term as governor and King’s first term as senator both expire at the start of 2019....

“But what I have told Donald Trump is this: You know, I want to save the federal government some money … I want to do my part,” LePage said. “So what about if I become the ambassador to Canada in the summer and Jamaica in the winter?”