VP Vance is dissing her in front of crowds of supporters?
Vice President Vance on Thursday stumped for Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) as she seeks reelection, though he told voters that he is sometimes “frustrated” with her.
The vice president was in the Pine Tree State to deliver remarks on the Trump administration’s “efforts to combat fraud.” Vance is the chair of the White House’s newly established task force that aims to eliminate “widespread fraud, waste and abuse” in federal programs. Collins was in Washington, D.C., he said, explaining why his “friend and former Senate colleague” was not in attendance.
“Sometimes I get frustrated with Susan Collins,” Vance told the audience in Bangor, Maine. “I almost wish that she was more partisan. But the thing I love about Susan is she is independent, because Maine is an independent state. And, frankly, if she was as partisan as I sometimes wish that she was, she would not be a good fit for the people of Maine.”
Collins’s independent streak in the face of President Trump’s policies is long documented, including when she was one of the seven Republican senators to vote to convict him after he was charged with inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, of which he was later acquitted.
According to Roll Call, however, Collins nearly always votes in line with Trump’s agenda, at 95 percent of the time….
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Vance arrived in Maine amid a heated race between Collins and Democratic nominee Graham Platner, who hopes to unseat the five-term incumbent Republican…..
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