“Sen. Susan Collins’s bid for a sixth term in the Senate is a test of political gravity,” the Washington Post reports.
“For years, the Republican senator in an ever-more Democratic Maine has run so far ahead of President Donald Trump that she practically floated above him, suspended in air thanks to a mix of selective defiance and canny use of Senate seniority to steer millions to the small state for local works projects.”
“But 11 years into Trump’s political life, Collins’s campaign against Democrat Troy Jackson has been weighed down by the Republican president and his constant controversy and growing disapproval. Trump is everywhere in the race.”
