Posted on 10/16/2020 8:26:19 AM PDT by Hojczyk
President Donald Trump slammed Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins for not being in favor of voting to confirm Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett until after Election Day.
In a tweet, Trump said he heard a “nasty rumor” that Collins will not be voting in favor of confirming Barrett. Collins said in September that she does not support voting to confirm a Supreme Court justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg until after the Nov. 3 elections.
“There is a nasty rumor out there that @SenatorCollins of Maine will not be supporting our great United States Supreme Court Nominee. Well, she didn’t support Healthcare or my opening up 5000 square miles of Ocean to Maine, so why should this be any different. Not worth the work!” Trump tweeted
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Barrett’s confirmation Oct. 22.
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The stupid b*tch came out after the first day of hearings and said she wasn’t voting for her. The least this whiny RINO could have done was wait the four days, but NOOOOOO, she has to show what an a$$hole she is, and do it on the first day. I hope she loses her seat. She doesn’t deserve to keep it.
damn we can’t primary her now, she is a horrible senator!
she just saw one of the best-presenting, highly-qualified nominees and she’s just gonna vote NO anyway!?? WTF is wrong with her?!
even Mitt Romney was impressed and is voting for her.
and even Diane Feinstein was impressed and complimented her.
Collins has no right doing this, it STINKS! I will contribute to primarying her as soon as we can
If Collins disagrees with the “process”, she should Vote Present or not Vote at all to protest it.
Same goes for that Moron from Alaska.
That would make it only necessary to get a Majority Vote based on 98, not 100. 49 plus the V.P. will do the trick.
It is....I didn’t see the satire label until I went back.
As Trump has essentially repeatedly pointed out, it’s not just a vote for Trump, it’s a vote for us deplorables.
Thanks in advance.
“Were I a Maine voter, not voting for her this time around would certainly be on the table.”
The dem running is a real piece of work.
“My liberal college professor friend is very impressed with ACB so the senators should be very careful.”
Yes. People generally like kind, loving and smart moms.
ACB is probably a woman many lefties actually like.
I don’t like her much but i don’t quite get a Romney or Flake type vibe from her?
I think she’s just desperate to hang on to her seat.
I don’t know Maine. The few people I do know that moved there are conservatives. It seems Collin’s thinks the wishy-washiness will pick her up a independent votes & maybe few lib votes. She probably thinks conservatives will just suck it up and vote for her. If I lived in Maine I probably would do that and vote for her. The USSC is too important to not do that. Anyway she’s old, she’ll be going soon.
“There is no way that she didn’t poll this decision. She knows the republicans have the votes, and if it helps her reelection chances to vote no, then she should vote no. Whether we like it or not, we need her to win to keep the Senate. Trump should sit this one out.”
That, in a fungus infested nutshell, is what we hate about the GOPe.
This.
Trump’s “slamming” might actually be the tactic to support Collins in her election fight this year.
She needs an excuse to vote no...she is a fool....even the democrats know she is way above the average judge..
She could say I was against the vote before the election..but since the vote has come up now..she is a great person so I will vote for her...She is a Trump hater like 90 percent of the GOP
I have not heard one senator say TRUMP has nominated a great women for the job..because she is not an elite ..she is a deportable to Washington DC.. Not a Yalie or Harvard grad
I’d love to slam her, as well.
I think Willard is going to vote for ACB because the leadership of the LDS church insisted on it. Notre Dame and BYU, surprisingly, have a warm relationship, and many if not most of ACB’s moral values line up with those that the LDS church preaches. One of the witnesses who spoke in favor of Amy was retired Judge Griffith of the DC Circuit, who is a Mormon (he was teaching at BYU Law School prior to his appointment by Bush 43 to the DC Circuit).
I think Maine may be lost to the GOP for a long time, particularly since the ‘Rats introduced ranked choice voting (RCV). With RCV, the voter selects a first choice and a second choice from among the candidates on the ballot. This encourages minor party candidates and independent candidates to run. After the votes are cast, the state determines the first choice vote counts for each candidate. Then, they do a second count which includes the “second choice”. The candidate with the lowest vote total is eliminated. If no candidate has 50% + 1, they do a third count of the first and second choices of the remaining candidates. They keep going until they get someone who has 50% + 1, who is declared the victor.
In the 2018 congressional election for Maine CD-2, the former incumbent, Bruce Poliquin, got 48% of the first choice votes; the ‘Rat challenger, Jared Golden, was 2,000 votes or so behind in second place. There was an independent in the race, and it turned out that 90% of the second choice votes of his voters were for Golden, so Golden ended up being declared the winner.
Susan Collins is supposedly at 41-43%, depending on who you believe. In addition to the openly lesbian ‘Rat Sarah Gideon, you have an independent candidate who was once in the Green Party, and then a perennial candidate who supposedly is conservative. The Green independent supposedly has polled 8-10%. I don’t think you’ll see too many of her voters choosing Susan as their second choice candidate. So even if Susan was ahead after all the first choice votes were counted, if she is only at 48% she loses.
After the 2014 election, the Republicans held the governor’s office and the state senate. Now, they are shut out of power; they trail in the state House with 57 members out of 151, and only 14 out of 35 members in the Senate.
Maine appears to be a lost cause for the foreseeable future.
If the GOP wants to make a breakthrough in New England, they ought to invest some money into Rhode Island as well as in New Hampshire.
Trump needs to change the name of the party from GOP to something else if elected
Been itching to see it for several years.
The American Party
So sorry....Turns out it was ew York satire column
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