U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Maine today, holding a rally in the Bangor-Brewer area, presumably to bolster Republican candidates. However, one notable absence will be U.S. Senator Susan Collins. Though she spent yesterday in Madison, a short drive from Brewer, Maine, she won’t be attending the Vance rally. I wonder why? Is she afraid the stink of the Trump administration will attach itself to her more than it already has?
Source: Political Zoom
Harry Reid famously said about Susan Collins, “She’s always there when you don’t need her.” That sums up the senator from Maine pretty well. Collins maintains the facade of being a moderate by voting against Trump interests when her vote isn’t needed and towing the Trump line with her votes when the vote is crucial. This is why she’s been compared to Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown; many people keep thinking that one day she’ll change and then BAM! Up goes the football once again.
So why is Collins running from Vance when presumably he is in the state to shore up her senate seat? Very good question. The most obvious is that in increasingly blue Maine Collins does not want to identify with MAGA, feeling it the death knell to do so.
Unfortunately, with Collins’ voting record, it becomes a little hard to disabuse people of the fact that Collins is Trump’s handmaiden. How will Collins overcome this handicap?
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