Posted on 07/21/2020 10:00:53 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
(CNN)Sen. Susan Collins declined last week to back President Donald Trump for reelection, saying she would focus on her own race while suggesting that she only picked sides in 2016 because she was not on the ballot.
"I was not up for reelection," the Maine Republican told reporters, referring to the 2016 race, when she publicly voiced her opposition to Trump's presidential campaign. "I didn't have my own race to worry about at that point." But a dozen years ago, as she was running for reelection, Collins endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain over then-Sen. Barack Obama. She served as a co-chairwoman for the McCain campaign in Maine and said she would be "glad" to have her friend campaign for her. At a debate in her 2008 Senate race, she argued that it was "typical for the leading officeholders to chair the campaign of whichever member of your party is running for President."
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Power and perks is SOOOOOO addicting.
[I dont see how her decision encourages Republicans to vote for her. ]
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_elections_in_Maine,_2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election#Results_by_state
She’s just trying to protect her support among Democrats and independents. That’s what her Hamlet act over Kavanaugh was all about. She lies to these voters and then votes fairly reliably conservative on key right-wing issues. Which is how Kavanaugh was confirmed.
It would not surprise me if she went down to defeat. Maine is a blue state and getting bluer. Not quite New York State blue, but creeping leftward with every election.
Maybe it’s something in the water. If so, it’s a national problem. For instance, Seattle voters gave Democrats and leftists 9 out of every 10 votes in the mayoral jungle primary:
https://ballotpedia.org/Cary_Moon_(Washington)
This is a city that is ~60% non-Hispanic white, and a good chunk of the Asian and Hispanic populations are either illegal or on work permits (i.e. ineligible to vote). And yet Seattle is so far left, it makes NYC look like Nazi Germany by comparison.
so far, backstabbing RINOs never pay.
NEVER.
they ruin everything for America which
Sen ROmneyCARE cannot himself.
GOP RINOs <==== partners of George Soros and PeloXi
[While I am sure there are Republicans who will go into the voting booth, pick Trump for President and attempt to give him a Democratic Senate majority, I suspect theyre in the minority]
Collins may very well lose her seat. I hope not. The strategy you suggest makes sense.
I don’t think it’s “any thing in the water”, I think our increasingly socialist/Marxist populace is the result of gov’t secondary school and college indoctrination. Add to this the predictable fruit of Johnson’s Great Society. Welcome to 2020.
[Are you being facetious or did you mean Republican Senate Majority?]
As opposed to how she was before???
Yup. Collins is as good as Republicans can hope for in Maine.
[Im suggesting that while there are Republicans who will vote for Trump and against Collins, they are likely few both in absolute and relative (i.e. %) terms ...]
I understand this, but I wouldnt characterize this a desire to create a Democratic Senate Majority. (It may very well assist in that.) This is how I read your statement quoted in my previous post. You may not have intended this. Thus my request for a clarification.
I should have added COVID-19 as a contributing element to the current troubles. Idleness produces mischief. The lockdown has greatly contributed. The president is very wise about this downside and is working hard to get the nation busy and constructive.
After all, Maine is just the former northern MA.
Nice try, Alberta. Trump actually was more popular in 2016, pulling 44.9% of the vote than either John McCain (40.4%) or Mitt Romney (41%). And Trump got one Electoral Vote in Maine which neither McCain nor Romney could achieve. Yet, she endorsed them.
I hope you loose you elitist ho.
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