Democrat Sara Gideon Is Challenging Maine's Susan Collins

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Source: Roll Call

Maine state House speaker Sara Gideon is running against Sen. Susan Collins, one of Senate Republicans’ most vulnerable incumbents in 2020. The Democrat, who had long been expected to run but was waiting until the end of the legislative session, announced her candidacy in a video Monday morning.

“Susan Collins has been in the Senate for 22 years,” Gideon says, mentioning Collins for the first time nearly two minutes into the video. “And at one point, maybe she was different from some of the other folks in Washington. But she doesn’t seem that way anymore.”

Gideon highlights Collins’ vote for the GOP tax overhaul, and the video includes footage of President Donald Trump thanking Collins. The last thing Gideon mentions is Collins’ vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Gideon has served in the state legislature since 2012. In her announcement video, she recounts how her husband was asked to run for town council, but she decided it was a job she wanted to do. She ran for the that office and won.

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Gideon represents Freeport and Pownal in the state’s more liberal 1st District which Hillary Clinton carried in 2016. Collins is from Bangor, one of the largest cities and in the 2nd District which backed Trump in 2016 but flipped to a Democrat at the House level in last fall’s midterms.

Gideon joins several other Democrats running for the nomination to take on Collins. The Dem. candidate will benefit from millions of dollars in a Crowdpac fund raised by activists for Collins’ challenger since she announced her support for Kavanaugh.



Sen. Susan Collins (Maine-R); Sara Gideon.

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1. GO SARA!

Trump-Enabler Mitch-Robot "Concerned Sue" must be shown the door.

Yup

[MANative]

2. Sara was a camp counselor with my sister years ago in RI

Brilliant, caring, accomplished. I'll be sending $$.

[paleotn]

3. Come on Maine....

Make New England a clean sweep. Blue from the New York state line to The County.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Susan Collins was a 'right time, right place' candidate... She was in a three person primary race an

Susan Collins was a 'right time, right place' candidate...
She was in a three person primary race and so far back she could not even see the other two candidates' tail lights.

The millionaire candidate sponsored an investigation of the evangelist candidate who got run out of a southern state because he was boinking his twelve year old babysitter.

The millionaire denied his involvement but the public turned against both him and the evangelist, leaving Susan Collins as the sole remaining candidate.

[redstateblues]

5. Like Trump, I cannot stand the sound of her voice

Her word is also not worth anything