[RINO] Susan Collins withholds support from Trump despite endorsing previous GOP presidential nominees

Cnn ^ | July 21, 2020 | Manu Raju, Alex Rogers and Ali Zaslav

[who knows what evil?]

Power and perks is SOOOOOO addicting.

[Zhang Fei]

[I dont see how her decision encourages Republicans to vote for her. ]

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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 they’re in the minority. And last time around, in 2014, Collins got more votes (413,505) in Maine than Trump did (335,593) in 2016.

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.

[Diogenesis]

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

[nonsporting]

[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 they’re in the minority]

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Are you being facetious or did you mean “Republican Senate Majority”?

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.

[Zhang Fei]

[Are you being facetious or did you mean “Republican Senate Majority”?]

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I’m 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. Her principal issue isn’t driving GOP turnout in a presidential year - that’s the standard bearer’s (i.e. the presidential candidate’s) job. Her challenge is to avoid getting splashed if the guy at the top of the ticket is unpopular in her state. And that is why she has declined to endorse Trump.

[SunkenCiv]

As opposed to how she was before???

• Ilhan Omar could be voted OUT after just one term as main primary challenger rakes in millions in fundraising
  • Progressive Policies Wreck Everything
• Trump Cuts Legal Immigrants By Half And He's Not Done Yet
• Kanye West asks if he should postpone his presidential run
• Duckworth: Tucker Carlson 'Singled Me Out Because I Am Asian-American'
• Pelosi calls coronavirus the 'Trump virus' following revived White House task force briefing
• Founder of Never-Trump Super PAC Arrested in $60M Bribery Scheme
• Trump signs order to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted in redrawing of voting districts
• Jemele Hill says muted outrage over recent anti-Semitic controversies
  may be rooted in not wanting to undermine racial justice movement (barf)

[Sgt_Schultze]

Yup. Collins is as good as Republicans can hope for in Maine.

[nonsporting]

[I’m 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 ...]
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I understand this, but I wouldn’t 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.

[Theodore R.]

After all, Maine is just the former northern MA.

[Roy Tucker]

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.

[ZULU]

I hope you loose you elitist ho.