He could, but then a million really pissed-off voters could show up at the governor's mansion and burn it to the ground. With him still inside. You can only push people so far, and then backlash happens. Pence understood this on January 6th. So did all the Republican governors of Trump's "find me enough votes" states in 2020.
Nope, not a million, just enough to justify a mobilization of the NatGuard and mass arrests, then Fox News saying it was "the real insurrection" and calls going out for the people who showed up to get the death penalty, etc.
That's "ALMOST" what their reaction was to Susan Collins waking up a chalk message on her driveway.
