Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who lost to Democrat Troy Jackson after five terms of winning broad cross-party support in a blue-leaning state, said voters overlooked her record of breaking with President Donald Trump, in an interview with The New York Times.Collins complained that “everybody ignores” h...

Collins complained that “everybody ignores” her vote to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial.

“What bigger break could there be?” she asked. “It is never enough.”

While Collins touted her breaks with Trump, she was also a pivotal vote for key parts of his agenda. She provided a decisive vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, despite sexual assault allegations that he denied. And though she voted against Trump’s Medicaid-cutting “Big Beautiful Bill” on final passage, she was a key vote to advance debate on it.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
    2501·
    3 天前

    Despite her whines, the reality is Collins only broke with Republicans when she was sure it would make no difference to the vote outcome. She made damn sure to toe the party line the rest of the time.

    And she’s wrong, sometimes it is enough: Voters have had enough of Susan Collins.

    • CoconutLove@lemmy.today
      30·
      3 天前

      Exactly, if she could’ve gotten away without voting for Kavanaugh or the Big Beautiful Bill, she would’ve, but the Republicans and Trump needed her vote then, so she gave it to them. A Democrat wouldn’t have gone along with that shit. That’s why she got voted out.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        2 天前

        They would have taken away her appointments and she wouldn’t have been able to grift with the appropriations bills and campaign donations. Then she’d have lost her seat earlier when Maine stopped getting its outsized slice.

        Or they knew what the FBI had found and straight up blackmailed her. Or she’s just a common republican scumbag. Probably all of the above.