Republicans once critical of Collins now circle wagons around her

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/09/30/republicans-once-critical-of-collins-now-circle-wagons-around-her/

A little less than three years ago, then-Gov. Paul LePage took to the airwaves to bash a fellow Republican and the state’s senior U.S. senator – Susan Collins.

Collins, now the only Republican from New England in Congress, had weeks earlier denounced the party’s nominee for president, writing in a Washington Post guest column that she wouldn’t vote for Donald Trump because he was unworthy of the office.

“I think Susan Collins is done in Maine; I think her decision to go against the Maine Republicans really cooked her goose,” LePage told WGAN radio host Matt Gagnon, who also heads the conservative Maine Heritage Policy Center, a nonprofit, free-market think tank, and is one of LePage’s most vocal supporters.

The former governor’s upbraiding came just days after Trump had won the election, and speculation swirled about whether Collins would try to succeed LePage when his second consecutive term as governor came to a close in 2018.

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[Funtatlaguy]

1. I'm mildly concerned. Perplexed even. Almost conflicted.

[lindysalsagal]

2. Then, they all go down together. Fine with me. She's one of THEM.