PORTLAND — A little more than 100 days out from the November election, Senator Susan Collins is facing some of the worst approval ratings of her career as Maine voters reject her record of voting with Trump 96% of the time and voting for the Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. Collins is now facing some of the worst approval ratings of her career and strong backlash in the state as Mainers turn out to protest her disastrous record.

Here’s What to Know:

• Collins is facing some of the worst approval ratings of her career, only outdone in Maine by Donald Trump—who she voted with 96% of the time.

• Collins is being held accountable for her vote to confirm Justice Kavanaugh who overturned Roe v. Wade, including negative ad blitzes from outside groups.

• Political experts say that a new Democratic nominee in Maine will only make her more vulnerable in November.

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POLITICO: Collins’ allies think Platner’s exit makes her reelection bid tougher

• Republicans may be publicly using Graham Platner’s exit from Maine’s Senate race to ratchet up their attacks on Democrats, but behind the scenes, his withdrawal is hardly being viewed as good news for Sen. Susan Collins’ reelection campaign.

POLITICO: Dem ad blitz goes after Collins’ abortion rights record

• The ad highlights the Maine senator’s vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his subsequent role in overturning Roe v. Wade, and Collins’ recent statement that she does not regret that vote.

• Affordable Maine’s campaign will also highlight Collins’ confirmation votes for dozens of other federal judges nominated by President Donald Trump, several of whom have ruled to uphold state laws restricting or eliminating the right to terminate a pregnancy.

POLITICO: Planned Parenthood to target GOP with $47 million midterm blitz

• The near-record investment from Planned Parenthood Votes […] includes spending against GOP Sen. Susan Collins […]

• Collins opposed the megalaw that cut off Planned Parenthood funding. But her procedural vote to advance the bill, and her crucial vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which abortion-rights advocates view as the catalyst for overturning Roe v. Wade, has placed her high on the group’s target list. So, too, is former Rep. Mike Rogers, the likely GOP nominee in Michigan’s critical Senate race.

Bangor Daily News: Protesters gather at Susan Collins’ office after ICE shooting in Biddeford

• Protesters filled the street outside U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ office in Biddeford after a federal immigration enforcement agent fatally shot a man in the small York County city on Monday morning.

• Some of the protestors came into the entryway of the Republican senator’s Main Street office shouting “Vote her out!” the Portland Press Herald reported.

The Bulwark: Susan Collins Is Beatable No Matter Who Replaces Platner

• For a start: Donald Trump has lost Maine all three times he ran for president, and no other GOP senator faces re-election this year in a state won by Kamala Harris. Also: Collins’s ratings of late have ranged from bad to worse. A year ago, she was at 12 percent favorability in one poll, 38 percent approval in another. A poll this past May found her at 40 percent favorable, 58 percent unfavorable among Maine adults.

• It won’t be easy for her to separate herself from him. She voted with Trump 90 percent of the time in his first term and 95 percent of the time in 2025, his comeback year. Nor will she be saved by her contradictory, sometimes confusing Capitol Hill maneuvers.

• If you think the war in Iran was a horrific idea, for instance, you won’t like that she repeatedly voted no on Senate resolutions to curb Trump’s war powers and reassert the constitutional congressional power to declare war, then switched to yes in May and late June.

• Collins also voted a year ago to send Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to the Senate floor, then voted against it on the floor. That’s even though it included her five-year, $50 billion fund for rural health systems—which is, in any case, a wholly inadequate Band-Aid that will barely offset the law’s deep Medicaid and Affordable Care Act cuts or help up to 14 million people expected to lose coverage (and their ability to pay for care) as a result.

The 19th: The race to unseat Susan Collins is resetting around abortion

• […] abortion — a key weakness for Republican Sen. Susan Collins — is set to shape the next phase of the contest, which Democrats view as a prime pick-up opportunity.

• “One of her biggest vulnerabilities is abortion, and she knows it,” said Mini Timmaraju, president of abortion rights group Reproductive Freedom for All.

• This is Collins’ first reelection contest since Roe’s overturn allowed states across the country to ban abortion.