Kevin Miller

Republicans and our sizable number of independent voters here in the state, but even some Democrats.

Those Democrats are largely now gone in the Trump era.

And what Democrats are doing is they're trying to tie Susan Collins, who is a moderate by comparisons to most other people in the Senate, it seems.

trying to tie her to the Trump agenda.

And they're having some success doing it.

There's been a lot of frustration over Senator Collins, over some of her key votes.

She voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.

And even though at the time people were saying he's going to vote to overturn Roe versus Wade,

She said, I don't think he will.

And he did.

So Democrats are bringing up those.

She voted for RFK Jr.

as Health and Human Services Secretary.

For Senator Collins, she's having trouble keeping some of those middle, moderate, especially independent, or potentially having trouble keeping some of those middle, moderate, independent voters who have supported her in the past just because of how different things are nationally and politically as well as here at Maine.

Yeah, no, it did seem like a pretty awkward moment for her.

I mean, this is one of the things with Senator Collins.

She is the chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which, as you all know, is one of the most powerful committees in Congress because they control the federal purse strings.

This is a position that she's wanted for years and years to get, and she finally achieved it.

So it makes perfect sense for her to be

in the Oval Office for this bill-signing ceremony to sign a bunch of appropriations bills that she helped negotiate.