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Wheels seem to be coming off over at Team Collins.
Dems are experts at this kinda infighting -- even when winning! -- but pretty rare to see this sort of fissure within a GOP campaign...unless things are going south.
Patten had a Collins-hugging column in PPH 9/24. #MEpolitics
"It’s hard to change your mind about someone you once respected. When I hear Sen. Susan Collins speak, some part of my brain (or heart) still wants to believe the 30-year-old pitch of a humble and hard-working County girl devoted to public service...."
Devastating. #MEpolitics
Easy to lose the forest from the trees when it comes to Susan Collins, tariffs and Trump.
But big picture:
Trump launched a trade war for no good reason; Maine's suffering because of it; and Collins has responded to the ruination by voting with him 95% of the time. #MEpolitics
Steve Collins with the most important Maine political column of the year.
Big credit to him for covering a dark story the rest of the Maine press is studiously ignoring. Couldn't have been easy for him -- he was boosting Susan Collins as recently as last year. #MEpolitics
One of the saddest developments of this year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Maine has been watching Susan Collins, a senator once renowned for civility and decency, embrace the Maine Wire’s sickening racism and vulgar politics.
pressherald.com/2026/10/26/s…
Susan Collins has been dog-whistling to woo bigots since we joined this awful beat almost 20 yrs ago. (tinyurl.com/y5s5tpw5)
But her appeals have gotten cruder/more obvious.
The sword shtick is as embarrassing as it is disgusting. She should lose but should also be shunned.
Realizing that a lot of folks still may not have seen this.
Our story from July which hits different in the context of the more recent @propublica revelations. #MEpolitics
NEW: Susan Collins was close enough with Tom Daffron nine years before they married that she took him as her date to a black tie White House gala -- at a time when he was a registered lobbyist and still married to his former wife.
Link to our story in the next post. #MEpolitics
Wow another Republican candidate (tinyurl.com/4mzz3cut) who's a big Trump fan (tinyurl.com/54es3c9j) thinks Susan Collins is the bees knees. Shocking development! #MEpolitics
From @midcoastvillager's coverage of a protest outside a Rockland resort yesterday where Susan Collins was holding a fundraiser. tinyurl.com/r2c8yysc #MEpolitics
Hey is it a good thing when, eight days before an election, you feel compelled to plant a column by one of your staffer's husbands (!) in your sympathetic local paper arguing that a Pulitzer-winning outlet's month-old story was poorly researched? #MEpolitics
P.S. The story was credible and explosive. And backed up with evidence like e-mails. That's why Bangor Daily News ran it on the top of their front page! #MEpolitics
Shame on @benkail for playing along w/ this nonsense.
Voting to advance a bill so you can change it ISN'T A THING. Anyone can propose changes.
It's also Susan Collins SECOND excuse. First she said she defers to the Maj Leader on procedural votes -- an obvious lie. #MEpolitics
Why's Susan Collins spending time fundraising NINE DAYS before an election?
It's not because her campaign needs the $$. It's cuz her benefactors demand she make good on her end of the sordid money-for-access bargain her career is built around.
See e.g. @ProPublica. #MEpolitics
Still thinking about this which was about as close to an "emperor has no clothes" moment as you'll get in an American political debate. #MEpolitics
Q: Can you name a time when you voted against your party and President Trump and it changed the outcome?
SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Secretary Hegseth. As you undoubtedly have read, at the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated for that job.
Q: So it didn't change the outcome
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) making the case for why Mainers should give Susan Collins the boot and elect Troy Jackson. #MEpolitics
At the big press conference after the Lewiston shootings, Susan Collins said banning high-capacity magazines was preferable to banning assault guns...then lied when a reporter noted she'd voted against banning those too. tinyurl.com/5wahvtkx #MEpolitics
Third anniversary of the Lewiston shootings.
Earlier that very day, Susan Collins voted for an amendment that singled out veterans to be *exempted* from losing access to guns based on mental health screens that would otherwise apply. tinyurl.com/3y6rvfjp #MEpolitics
An Army reservist with a history of mental health issues is suspected of killing at least 18 people.
Hours before the rampage, the Senate voted 53-45 to adopt an amendment making it easier for veterans with mental disabilities to get guns.
Story: rollingstone.com/politics/po…
Stephen King says Susan Collins only "voice[s] concern"; implores Mainers to "pull the emergency break" on Trump and vote for Troy Jackson. #MEpolitics
