Republican-funded PAC spends $1 million on ads attacking Collins for not opposing Trump

Source: Portland Press Herald

A national political action committee formed by Republicans determined to defeat President Trump is launching a $1 million advertising campaign that attacks Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine as the president’s “stooge.”

The ads, which will appear Wednesday on television and across several social media platforms, are funded by The Lincoln Project, a “never Trump” group that has poured over $7 million into scathing ads attacking the president and, now, several Republican senators the PAC views as his enablers.

Good morning to @SenSusanCollins and @SenSusanCollins only. pic.twitter.com/6i4GlGtgkF

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 29, 2020

The $1 million ad campaign against Collins will be the PAC’s largest expenditure against any of the 10 Republican incumbents it is seeking to throw from the Senate in 2020. Collins, running for a fifth term in the Senate, is facing Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, a Democrat from Freeport, in a race that has drawn national attention and historic levels of campaign spending – already over $40 million with the election still 97 days away.

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