Collins 'getting ready' for 2020 run, splits shutdown blame
Source: MSN
PORTLAND, Maine Sen. Susan Collins is "getting ready to run" for re-election, she said during a television appearance Sunday, but she reiterated that she won't make a decision until the end of the year.
Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine who was first elected to the Senate in 1996, also said on NBC's "Meet The Press" that she thinks Republicans and Democrats are both at fault for the government shutdown and that a compromise could be brokered soon.
Democrats and liberal groups have targeted Collins for her role in the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last year. A crowd-funded effort to boost her opponent in 2020 has received more than $3.7 million.
Collins has yet to make a firm commitment about whether she's running for re-election. She told "Meet The Press" host Chuck Todd she would prefer to use this year to legislate rather than campaign.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/collins-getting-ready-for-2020-run-splits-shutdown-blame/ar-BBRSbi6
Susan Collins is once again doing false equivalency thing, which makes her an independent thinker for the media even though she will always end up voting with Trump. It is amazing how people fall for this song and dance.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)pecosbob
(7,542 posts)TomCADem
(17,390 posts)She has becoming a walking and talking meme. She either has no spine, since she is afraid of a primary challenge, or she really is just as racist as the rest of Trump's base, but tries to keep it secret.
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)smb
(3,474 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)...loses big! Wonder what running the government has to do with the "wall," since she says "both at fault." When did running the USA have anything to do with The Donald's wall? At least, Susan Collins seemed intelligent, once...
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)Collins' face on that thing and it'd be a perfect representation of her!
sheshe2
(83,875 posts)Look over your shoulder, we are coming for you in 2020.
Signed,
Americans for Maine
McKim
(2,412 posts)I am putting money by to contribute to her opponents campaign! I hope every woman in Maine remembers just why Kavanaugh is now serving on OUR Supreme Court!
Irishxs
(622 posts)Harker
(14,033 posts)on the Senate floor earns the description "moderate?" One might think it's her true title. The questionable descriptor needs to be ignored. Or better, dropped. She's a republican senator from Maine.
PSPS
(13,614 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,254 posts)SHADDAP AND GO AWAY!!
Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)I am continually amazed at the term. It's a non existant species. When push comes to shove they all go with the party line.