ME-SEN: Susan Collins challenger would vote to remove' Trump
Sara Gideon, the Maine House speaker who is running to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in November, said she would have voted to convict President Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial and slammed Collins for saying she would vote for acquittal.
Gideon said she believed Trump abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals and that Collins was “complicit” in letting him off the hook.
“Based on the information included as part of the impeachment trial, I believe an abuse of power occurred and I would vote to remove the President,” Gideon said in a statement.
“[Collins’s] decision to acquit despite the case against the President and without hearing more of the facts again reveals her commitment to standing with [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump,” she added. “This was not the process that Mainers and Americans deserved, and Senator Collins was complicit in letting that happen.”
Gideon also slammed Senate Republicans for voting down a Democratic measure to allow further witness testimony in the chamber’s impeachment trial.
Democrats had clamored to hear from current and former administration members after new evidence arose following the December House vote to impeach Trump on two articles.
“Like a lot of Mainers, I believe we needed to hear from relevant witnesses and to consider all evidence as part of this process,” said Gideon. “I also believe that if President Trump was so confident in his innocence then both he and Republicans in the Senate would have gladly allowed that testimony to occur.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/481483-susan-collins-challenger-i-would-vote-to-remove-trump
