Donald Trump backs reelection of Susan Collins

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/12/24/donald-trump-backs-reelection-of-susan-collins/

In a tweet Monday, President Donald Trump said he agrees 100% that Collins is needed to ensure Republicans keep control of the U.S. Senate next year.

Posted 10:26 AM Updated 25 mins ago

BY STEVE COLLINS SUN JOURNAL

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine refused to vote for him.

Denouncing him for mocking the vulnerable and attacking “ethnic and religious minorities,” she wrote in House Speaker Paul Ryan instead, a choice that didn’t even register in the final results since the Wisconsin Republicans hadn’t registered as any sort of candidate in Maine.

But it appears that Trump, unusually for him, isn’t holding a grudge.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham recently issued a tweet recently hailing Collins, a four-term Republican, for showing “unbelievable courage” during the bitter confirmation fight surrounding U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last year “and at other times when our country has needed a steady voice.”

“We need her to ensure a GOP majority in 2020,” Graham wrote, and urged his supporters to send money to Collins’ campaign. He also linked to her recent reelection announcement.

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Quid pro quo for her vote in the Senate trial...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "I need a favor from you, though..."

[bluestarone]

2. She's too dumb to see through the fog

They actually hate her!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Hard to wash off THE KISS OF DEATH from Trump.

Susan Collins is toast, and any other GOP
Senator up for re-election.

[malaise]

4. Didn't he promise his deplorables that he would beat Jon Tester?

Please predict asshole!

[2naSalit]

20. It was like an invasion of twisted BS

careening about the state! And they failed miserably. I think it pisses off a lot of the locals when they get left with the tab when he comes to town, I think people are getting hip to the stink of his sh*t. Those who weren't really sure 'cause they don't pay attention...

One of the best things to happen to Maine in a while if they run her out of the Senate.

[calguy]

5. He gave her some "assurances".

[Aristus]

6. Well, I hope that torpedoes her campaign.

Trump kills everything he touches...

[onecaliberal]

8. One can hope.

[tblue37]

15. ETTD. nt

[dalton99a]

7. The Trump enabler will spout her usual concerns and pull the lever for whatever he wants

as she has always done

[world wide wally]

9. Puppet woman

[Talitha]

10. Everything trump touches dies - - Bye Felicia!!!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. Collins probably didn't want his endorsement.

It's like an anti-endorsement. Here's who you shouldn't vote for.

[lettucebe]

12. Doesn't his endorsement pretty much ensure her defeat?

[Dennis Donovan]

14. If the polling is correct, pretty much. n/t

[gratuitous]

13. There you go, Maine

Sen. Collins is trying to retrieve some credibility by casting safe "no" votes against certain judicial nominees when her vote isn't needed for confirmation. It's a feint, a ruse. Collins is a dyed-in-the-wool Trumpist Republican. When the United States' interests are in conflict with her party's interests and her vote is needed, Collins will always side with the party.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Kiss of Death.

Too bad, Susan.

[roamer65]

17. In New England, Dump is a def kiss of death.

[keithbvadu2]

18. Susan Collins who said she would only serve two terms.

[2naSalit]

19. Alright! The kiss of death! About time...nt

[Maine-i-acs]

21. Hopefully he will come up here to campaign for her in person!

She's trying to distance herself from her allegiance to appear "independent" and 'maverick".
It's the message in her outside-funded campaign commercials, one of which shows her standing next to Sen. Klobuchar.

But Mainers saw her Kavanaugh travesty and her mock 'concern' about this and that transgression against humanity in the current cycle.
She still won't speak against her corporate overlords except in whispers to scam voters.

And she's wealthy with Russian petrochemical dollars thanks to her second husband, so Russia is AOK with old Sellout Susie.

Please donate to Sara Gideon 2020 !