ME Sen I can't really be Collins it yet

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The more I think about it, I believe her disingenuous vote to hear witnesses that she knew was going to fail combined with her certain vote to acquit Trump will destroy her. Seems like she's trying to have it both ways by pretending to want to hear new evidence and witnesses but she has already made up her mind to march in lockstep with Senate republicans on the final vote. I really don't see that working out for her, especially as new evidence drips out from now until election day.

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Collins' hilariously stupid, tortured claim that trump has learned from his impeachment - and the logical insinuation that he will therefore change his behavior going forward - is really going to bite her as he continues to act in the same manner, or worse, from now until election day. He's already made a fool out of her by telling a reporter who asked him about Collin's quote that he did nothing wrong and the call was perfect. What an absolute idiot.

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The ads are practically writing themselves.

https://youtu.be/ARP9m7-PzJU?t=440

Susan Collins Admits Trump May Not Have Learned His ‘Lesson’

One day after Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) announced her decision to vote against removing President Trump from office by saying that she believes he has learned his “lesson” and will be “much more cautious in the future,” she admitted on Fox News that her assumption was based on nothing. Asked by Fox anchor Martha MacCallum if Trump gave her any “assurance” that he would not accept (or solicit) foreign help in his next election, Collins said she has not spoken to him once throughout the Senate trial, which ended in the president’s acquittal Wednesday afternoon.

“So why do you have that feeling that he has changed, that he learned a lesson?” MacCallum asked. Collins smiled broadly as she replied, “Well, I may not be correct on that. It’s more aspirational on my part, it’s more that I hope that he’s listened to the many voices in the Senate who have pointed out that the call was very problematic.” President Trump has never admitted that his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was anything less than “perfect.”

Ass clown. Should be a law against being this naive (or full of sh**t) and being in the US Senate.

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This is another interesting article about Susan Collins' predicament: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/maine-turned-on-susan-collins.html. As with the Politico article that I posted before, this article examines why Collins' approval ratings have collapsed to the extent they have, and how many Democratic and independent voters who had supported her in her previous races now detest her, and want her out.

Democratic activism in Maine seems to have increased substantially over the past three years, and Collins' tax vote, her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, and her vote to acquit Trump are identified as the three main factors which have destroyed her popularity. They also interviewed Shenna Bellows, Collins' 2014 opponent, who lost to her by a 2-1 margin last time, and who seems to be heartened by how Maine's voters have "been awakened" to Collins' true character.
 

Read this the other day. Fantastic article. Was really heartening to read about all of the people who automatically voted for Collins in the past who became just absolutely enraged by her votes on Kavanaugh, the tax scam and the impeachment trial, not to mention Betsy Devos' confirmation. Collins' refusal to meet with more than a few constituents and her arrogant dismissal of them drove these voters even further away from her. Collins is not getting anything she doesn't deserve right now. An absolutely horrible representative of her state.