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Maine’s liberal activists don’t expect the senator to take on the GOP
With Election Day just six weeks away, Susan Collins is staring at yet another potential Supreme Court controversy. Nearly two years after the Maine senator voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the nation’s highest court, she’s again at the center of a battle over a vacant court position, this time centered around Senate Republicans’ efforts to rush through President Trump’s pick for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat.
Collins knows better than anyone how much of a conundrum she now faces. Her stunning drop in popularity — she trails her opponent, Democratic nominee Sara Gideon, by five points in the…
On the ground with the Maine activists working to flip her seat and take back the Senate
The cars that crawled by the protestors were mostly courteous. Around noon on a frigid November day in Bangor, Maine, the normally sleepy downtown plaza showed signs of life as roughly two dozen people held up signs that said things like “Make Truth Matter Again” and “Senators: neglect becomes complicity” and, more bluntly, “You Lied!” The city square adjoins the main street, which is full of modest brick storefronts — a noodle bar, an Irish pub, and an outdoor sports retailer, all fitting witnesses to this equally modest display of democracy. A pickup truck drove by and the front-seat passenger…
