Susan Collins is fooling no one with refusal to say out loud that her allegiance is to Trump

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Written by Joan McCarter / Daily Kos September 9, 2020

She’s still not saying whether she supports Donald Trump’s reelection out loud, but Maine Sen. Susan Collins is demonstrating to the Trumper base, in every way she can, that she’s with him all the way. As if not declaring her fealty to Trump will help her hang on to non-Republican votes, her game is embarrassingly transparent. She’s attending fundraisers and bragging about her vote to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, but still trying to play coy in public, even to the extent of photoshopping Trump out of Trump events she attends.

The Republicans in question are totally on to her game of not endorsing Trump (wink, wink). “I guess Susan has her reasons for it, but I’m not offended as a conservative or a supporter of the president that she’s doing that,” Christopher Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax Media and an informal Trump adviser, told the Bangor Daily News. “I think she has a right to do it.” They know what’s going on, though. At a fundraiser held last week, former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, the guy who likes to proclaim himself Trump before Trump got popular, was there to boost her.

At the event “Collins went no further than she has in public” about whether she was going to endorse Trump, “but gave a speech touting the Kavanaugh vote and criticizing [Sara] Gideon,” her opponent in the upcoming election. She also “said former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, has gotten more liberal over the years.” However, she “stopp[ed] short of backing Trump.” Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

It’s a stupid game—which Republicans are of course going to play along with because they know now that when the chips are down, she’s chosen her side: Trump. They’re even playing her game with her. Collins will “never be beholden to one group or another” lobbyist Josh Tardy, Collins’ campaign co-chair, told the Bangor Daily News. Tardy is also on the Republican National Committee working to reelect Trump.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/susan-collins-is-fooling-no-one-with-refusal-to-say-out-loud-that-her-allegiance-is-to-trump/

This person has no principles.................and now she has along with her leader close to 190,000 deaths from a virus, and an asshole that did not say a word about Russian bounties on American forces...........and calling dead service member losers and suckers........................

[Laffy Kat]

1. God, I hope she loses, big time. nt

[Le Roi de Pot]

2. Susan Collins now wishes she had either voted to kill ACA or had allowed evidence on Orange ANUS

She is neither here not there

[llmart]

3. If she thinks she's fooling people...

then she is sorely mistaken. This is one race I want to be a blowout! There need to be consequences for her wishy washy stances and cowardly votes.