Democrats sensing a weaken Collins , are going after her ….
Collins has been a Trump supporter in a state that polls 55% of it’s voters against the President…
Carrying him on her back could be her undoing?
Republican Sen. Susan Collins has a well-funded Democrat prepping to challenge her next year. She has national women’s groups ready to attack her over her vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And she’s a moderate facing an electorate that increasingly prioritizes purity.
Still, the four-term Maine senator’s biggest hurdle to re-election may be the president of her own party.
President Trump’s potential impeachment in the House and subsequent trial in the Senate presents a distinct dilemma for Collins. Of the handful of Republicans senators facing re-election next year, she has done perhaps the most to keep a clear distance from Trump. But as Democrats charge ahead toward impeachment, it looks increasingly likely that Collins will be forced to take sides in dramatic fashion. The senator, who has acknowledged she didn’t vote for the president in 2016 and still won’t say whether she will next year, may have to vote for him on the Senate floor.
“Susan Collins is in a terrible position,” said David Farmer, a Democratic operative in Maine. “The position that she’s in where she will likely … take a vote on whether to remove the president from office is going to inflame either the Democratic or the Republican base.”…
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Maine’s 2020 Senate race is shaping up to be a fiercely contested election fueled by unprecedented amounts of mostly out-of-state money if Collins, who has yet to formally declare her candidacy, decides to seek a fifth term.
Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C., and party donors in Maine and nationwide are already throwing their support and more than $4 million into the primary campaign of Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon of Freeport….
More. on other Democrats looking to run against Collins…….
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) WILL run for re-election….
VT-Pres: Booker, Bennet, and Delaney did not file for the Vermont Presidential Primary, choosing to punt on collecting the 1000 verified signatures needed to get on the ballot. Booker’s campaign also openly said they do not think they can attain the 15% needed to win delegates in the state, especially with Sanders’s home state advantage….
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The Lincoln Project takes on Trump — and possibly Maine’s Susan Collins
Several veterans of past Republican campaigns, including the former head of New Hampshire’s GOP, have created a committee aimed at defeating President Trump in 2020 and congressional Republicans who have supported him.
Dubbed the Lincoln Project, the group has Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine as one of its biggest potential targets. Collins already faces a Democratic challenger and growing scrutiny from all corners as the Senate prepares for an expected Trump impeachment trial.
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