US Midterms 2026
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Phil Scott, Republican governor of Vermont since 2017 and a former lieutenant governor, state senator and construction business owner, is running for a sixth two-year term in 2026.
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Incumbent Republican Gov. Phil Scott and Democratic challenger Amanda Janoo are sharing their thoughts Thursday after the Republican Governor’s Association funded a Vermont super PAC.
JanooAmanda Janoo wants to make Vermont a national leader on regulating AI. Phil Scott says that’s better left to the feds, working together with tech companies.
JanooIn March of this year, Vermont Public Service Commissioner Kerrick Johnson stated on Vermont Public's Vermont Edition, "Vermonters should be able to determine (Vermont's) energy portfolio." Fair enough, though he and…
Alex and TJ attended GlobalFoundries's solar field opening ceremony on Monday, October 5th.
The youth vote could have an impact on Vermont’s gubernatorial election. Phil Scott has been governor since 2016, when this year’s young voters were between 8 and 19 years old.
JanooDemocratic gubernatorial candidate Amanda Janoo has advocated for “degrowth,” an economic approach that calls for reducing production and consumption in some sectors rather than pursuing economic growth as a primary…
The matchup between Scott and Janoo amounts to a contrast in both style and substance.
Vermont is rare among states this election season. It has two statewide elections on the ballot – one U.S. House seat and one governor’s race – that are both considered safe for incumbents who are in opposing parties.
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Philip Brian Scott, born in Barre, Vermont, on August 4, 1958, is the son of Marian (Beckley) and Howard Roy Scott, a World War II veteran who was wounded in service and later supervised vehicle permits for the state highway department.
Scott graduated from Spaulding High School in Barre in 1976 and earned a degree in industrial education from the University of Vermont in 1980.
He began working at DuBois Construction in Middlesex after high school, owned a Morrisville shop that sold and repaired motorcycles after college, and managed construction projects for H. A. Manosh Corporation.
In 1986 he became part owner of DuBois Construction, a stake he sold after his election as governor, and he led the Associated General Contractors of Vermont as president. He also races stock cars.
Scott won one of three at-large Vermont Senate seats for the Washington County district in 2000 and served from 2001 to 2011, chairing the Institutions Committee and serving as the Transportation Committee's vice chair.
In 2005 he started Wheels for Warmth, a program that resells used tires to fund heating assistance. He defeated Steven Howard for lieutenant governor on November 2, 2010, was sworn in on January 6, 2011, as the state's 81st lieutenant governor and won reelection in 2012 and 2014.
In the 2016 governor's race he defeated Bruce Lisman by 21 points in the August 9 Republican primary and Democrat Sue Minter by 8.7 points in November.
He became Vermont's 82nd governor in 2017 and won reelection in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024; his 2024 margin was the widest in a Vermont governor's race since 1946. Scott describes himself as a fiscal conservative and a pro-choice Republican.
Scott is running for a sixth two-year term in the November 3, 2026, election, following primaries held on August 11. His Democratic opponent is economist Amanda Janoo, who outraised him in September 2026. Vermont is one of two states that Kamala Harris carried in 2024 with a Republican governor on the 2026 ballot, alongside New Hampshire.
