'I do not regret my vote in the least,' Maine GOP Senator Susan Collins said of her 'yes' vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last year.
Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins said she has no regrets about her vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last year, even though that decision has put her seat — and, by extension, GOP control of the Senate — at risk.
The senator recalled how she received death threats after voting"yes" to confirm Kavanaugh despite intense testimony from professor Christine Blasey Ford accusing the judge of sexual assault decades before. Collins easily won her fourth senate term in 2014 with a solid 68 percent of the vote in Maine. And according to Federal Elections Commission data as of March, Collins has already raised $4.4 million for her potential 2020 campaign.
"At one point, maybe Sen. Collins was different, but she doesn't seem that way anymore: taking over a million dollars from drug companies and the insurance industry and voting to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court," Gideon said in a recent campaignRepublicans currently control 53 of 100 U.S. Senate seats, so the GOP can not afford to lose seats in the 2020 election, when one-third of the chamber will be running for office.
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