Susan Collins
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Susan Margaret Collins is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator for Maine since 1997. A member of the Republican Party, she is Maine's longest-serving member of Congress and the longest-serving Republican woman in the Senate. Collins has chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee since 2025.
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Sep 30, 2026
Far Left
Slate reports Collins faces strong Democratic headwinds even before a scandal broke.
The far left has long despised Collins as a performative moderate who votes with Republicans on judges and budgets, so her vulnerability is met with schadenfreude, not sympathy.
Sep 29, 2026
Far Left
Even before a scandal broke, Susan Collins was facing strong Democratic headwinds in her reelection race.
Collins is a centrist Republican whose performative moderation the far left sees as a cover for reactionary policies, and her potential defeat is viewed as a positive development.
Sep 25, 2026
Center
The Maine Republican senator faces a pivotal test on abortion as Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump's FDA nominee, testifies before the Senate Health Committee.
Centrists watch Collins as the last pro-choice Republican institutionalist, and her vote on Overton will signal whether abortion-rights moderation still exists inside the GOP caucus.
Sep 24, 2026
Center
A ProPublica report alleges the Maine Republican engaged in a pay-to-play scheme with a Hawaiian defense contractor, and an FBI probe is boosting Democratic opponent Jackson in the Senate race.
Collins built her brand as a moderate institutionalist willing to buck her party, so allegations of self-dealing with a defense contractor undercut the exact rationale her crossover voters rely on.
Sep 21, 2026
Center
The Maine Republican senator is facing a challenge from progressive brawler Troy Jackson in a race Democrats view as key to retaking the Senate.
Collins has long positioned herself as a centrist dealmaker, and her race will be a direct referendum on whether that identity still has a constituency in a polarized Senate map.
Sep 10, 2026
Center
Collins faces a fourth poll showing a narrow deficit to Troy Jackson in Maine's Senate race.
For moderate voters, Collins is a test case: can a centrist Republican survive Trump-era polarization or is she seen as too loyal?
Sep 8, 2026
Center
Democrats and reproductive rights groups are using her vote to confirm Kavanaugh as a key attack line in her reelection campaign.
Moderates view Collins as a symbol of the GOP's broken promise on Roe, but some respect her occasional independence.
Aug 2, 2026
Far Left
The Maine Republican is the target of Troy Jackson's Senate challenge, with the race seen as a key midterm battleground.
To radical left readers, Collins symbolises the 'moderate' Republican who enables conservative power while posing as a bipartisan voice, making her defeat a strategic priority.
Aug 2, 2026
Center
Her 2018 vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh is now a central issue in her re-election campaign, with abortion-rights voters haunted by the subsequent overturning of Roe.
She represents the moderate Republican institutionalist who trusted process over outcome, and center/moderates see her struggle as a warning about judicial confirmation bargains.
Jul 26, 2026
Far Left
Holds enormous cash edge over Jackson thanks to billionaire-funded super PACs.
Represents the neoliberal Republican establishment that enabled Trump's worst impulses while maintaining a moderate veneer.