After swearing not to elect then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016, mentioning his “absence of self-restraint” and “unsuitablity for office,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has taken an extremely more restrained approach to his reelection bid in 2020.
The Maine senator, who is facing what’s forming up to be the most difficult reelection race of her profession, would not say during a current interview with a regional TV news program whether she’s electing Trump in her state’s upcoming main.
” Are you preparing to enact Tuesday’s main and will you be supporting President Trump or composing in another person as you did in 2016?” WCSH-TV anchor Pat Callaghan asked Collins throughout an interview on Friday.
Collins said she voted by absentee ballot ahead of Maine’s March 3 primary, however didn’t say whether she cast her ballot for Trump. The president is the only candidate noted on Maine’s Republican main ballot this year, together with the option to compose in another name.
Though she composed an op-ed bashing Trump 3 months before the 2016 election, Collins stated she isn’t going to “get involved in presidential politics” this time around.
” I would keep in mind that it’s on the Democratic side that there are eight prospects and my likely challenger in addition to the guv and numerous other Democratic authorities have not said who they are going to pick in what is a contested Democratic ballot,” Collins said. “I’m concentrated on my job and likewise on my own project and I’m simply not going to get associated with pres