Senator Collins once again using carefully worded statements to dance around the heart of the issue: Is she committed to voting against Trump’s nominee?
Senator Susan Collins is back to her old tricks, relying on meticulously calibrated political speech to avoid taking a real position on whether she’ll vote to confirm Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. As Collins tries to avoid political consequences while she calculates her next move, she’s refusing to give a straightforward answer to the most important question of all.
Mitch McConnell has made no bones about his plans to push a confirmation through the Senate, capping off his years of work transforming the judiciary with far-right, unqualified justices. Senator Collins has been a key part of his effort, confirming 178 of Trump’s nominees in the past four years. And now, she’s refusing to commit to voting against a nominee put forward by Trump.
Mainers deserve to know: Senator Collins, will you vote against any nominee put forward by Trump?
Refusing to answer a simple question is par for the course for Senator Collins, who has spent the last 646 days refusing to tell Mainers the truth about whether she’s voting for Trump this year and has falsely claimed that Mainers aren’t interested in knowing who she thinks should be leading the country for the next four years. But she showed her true colors in the impeachment trial, when after weeks of trying to have it both ways, she ultimately fell in line and voted to shield Trump from accountability without ever hearing from a single witness.
It’s a simple question: Will Senator Collins actually commit to voting against Trump’s nominee?
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