Trump Backlash and Rising Fuel Costs Put Republican Susan Collins Under Pressure in Maine

Trump backlash and rising fuel costs put Republican Susan Collins under pressure in Maine

ALLAGASH (US), Oct 21 — Early snow is already dusting the north-easternmost US state of Maine, where a canny 73-year-old Republican senator is having to run the race of her life...

Fury at Trump has Susan Collins in trouble against 'not inspirational' Democrat: report

Maine Democrats openly admit their Senate nominee isn’t setting anyone’s heart on fire. They just don’t think it matters.With the race in its final days, Democrats are counting on voters’ anger at President Donald Trump, and at Republican Sen. Susan Collins for going along with him, to deny the 73-year-old incumbent a sixth term, reported the Washington Post.“This race isn’t really about me – it never was,” Democratic nominee Troy Jackson told t…

Has Susan Collins’s political luck finally run out?

If Sen. Susan Collins loses reelection, “a lot of it will be put at the feet of President Trump,” Washington Post reporter Dan Merica told Vox’s Today, Explained. | Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images With two weeks until the midterm elections, Democrats are comfortably favored to take the House. Their path to Senate control, though, is harder — and it could run through Maine, where longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins is in a tight race …