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left-of-center2012

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Tue Oct 9, 2018, 08:48 AM Oct 2018

Susan Collins becomes top 2020 target for Dems

In an increasingly partisan chamber, Collins has consistently been ranked as one of the Senate’s most moderate members. But her decision to support Kavanaugh outraged a coalition of progressives, activists and even some supporters who spent months urging her to vote against President Trump’s nominee.

Democrats are pledging to unseat her if she runs for reelection in 2020, comparing an almost hour-long floor speech that earned praise from fellow GOP senators to a “slap in the face.”

Heidi Hess, co-director of Credo Action, said the 2020 election will be “tough” for Collins, predicting the anger over Kavanaugh wouldn’t be erased by the time she is on the ballot.

“She made a floor speech saying she believes survivors,
and saying she was going to vote against the ones who … came forward against Brett Kavanaugh, and that's not something people are going to forget,” Hess said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/410485-susan-collins-becomes-top-2020-target-for-dems

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Susan Collins becomes top 2020 target for Dems (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2018 OP
This is good but she shouldn't be the TOP for 2020. Mitch McConnell should be the TOP for 2020. Squinch Oct 2018 #1
She's TIED for the top, mainly Greybnk48 Oct 2018 #2

Greybnk48

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2. She's TIED for the top, mainly
Tue Oct 9, 2018, 09:08 AM
Oct 2018

for baiting women into thinking she is a voice for us and then kicking us in the teeth with partisan bullshit for the umpteenth time. SSDD. Her opponent will get money from me.

McConnell is on top too. I'd like to start a go-fund-me page to pay and have every moment of McConnell's life investigated and flood the airwaves with the dirt we dig up. I have no doubt we would find tons.

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