With just one week until Maine’s presidential primary and 20 days to the Republican filing deadline, voters across the state want to know: Will Senator Susan Collins vote for Trump?
In the last few weeks, Collins has been more than happy to campaign with Trump lackeys and deploy staff to tell Mainers that Trump wants them to reelect her but she still refuses to say whether she plans to vote to reelect the president.
Senator Collins’ record fills in the blanks on her support for Donald Trump:
1) According to CQ, Senator Collins voted with Donald Trump 94% of the time.
2) Senator Collins has been a key vote for Donald Trump on everything from the tax plan that gave corporations and the wealthy trillions in tax breaks to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and every one of Trump’s judicial nominees in 2017 and 2018 -- even those “deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association.” She joined with Mitch McConnell to acquit Trump in the impeachment trial, after voting 12 times against including witnesses and evidence.
3) Donald Trump has said he's 100% behind Senator Collins' reelection.
4) Staffers for the president’s reelection campaign “worked to get her on the ballot” by collecting signatures door-to-door and at Trump events.
Trump is on the ballot in Maine one week from today. Mainers deserve to know whether Senator Collins is voting for him.
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