A new RMG Group survey in Maine finds Sarah Gideon (D) leading Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 41%.

A new Colby College/Social Sphere poll in Maine finds Sara Gideon (D) leading Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 44% to 39%.

In the presidential race, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump statewide, 50% to 38%.

Biden leads 55% to 35% in the state’s first congressional district and 45% to 41% in the second congressional district.

A new Public Policy Polling survey in Maine finds Sarah Gideon (D) leading Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 47% to 42%.

A new Public Policy Polling survey in Maine finds Sara Gideon leading Sen. Susan Collins in the U.S. Senate race by 4 points, 46% to 42%.

Brutal numbers for the incumbent: Just 36% of voters approving of the job Collins is doing, while 55% disapprove.

In the presidential race, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump, 53% to 42%.

A new Victory Geek poll in Maine finds Sara Gideon (D) leading Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 51% to 42%.

“Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Sara Gideon raised $7.1 million during the first quarter of 2020, surpassing Republican Sen. Susan Collins after the incumbent had already set a record for the most fundraising during a Maine campaign,” the Bangor Daily News reports.

A new Critical Insights poll in Maine finds a further drop in approval for Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) since last fall, from 42% to 37%, while the share of voters who disapproved of her performance climbed to 52%.

In contrast, Sen. Angus King (I-ME) remained popular, with 59% of voters approving of his performance.

President Trump’s approval in Maine is just 36%.

A new Colby College poll in Maine finds Sara Gideon (D) edging Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 43% to 42%.

Key takeaway: “Among women, 36% said that they would vote for Ms. Collins, compared with 49% who said they would support Ms. Gideon. Ms. Collins’s support among women younger than 50 was even worse, with 25% saying that they would vote for her, compared with 56% who said they would support Ms. Gideon.”

“Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), appearing in Maine for the first time since her vote not to impeach President Trump, said that she disapproves of retribution against anyone who came forward with evidence during the process,” the Portland Press Herald reports.

Said Collins: “I’m obviously not in favor of any kind of retribution against anyone who came forward with evidence.”

“A U.S. Senate candidate in Maine has selected an unusual logo for campaign T-shirts – the guillotine – citing the need for a revolution to remove big money from politics,” the Portland Press Herald reports.

A mysterious Hawaii company may have illegally funneled a six-figure contribution to a political group boosting embattled Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) 5,000 miles away, the Daily Beast reports.

“There is scant public information about the company. It does not appear to have a website or any social media presence. Its listed address is a P.O. box in Honolulu… Google searches turn up no information on the company. And there’s no record of prior political involvement by its sole officer, Jennifer Lam.”

Michael Bloomberg, who took his presidential campaign to Maine, said he would actively back his party’s challenger to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) despite past donations to her, the Bangor Daily News reports.

He said he backed Collins in previous elections because of her general support for expanding background checks for gun purchases.

A new Garin-Hart-Yang (D) poll in Maine finds 53% of voters think President Trump is guilty of abusing the power of his office for his personal benefit by withholding military aid to Ukraine.

Among independent voters — a key group for Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who is up for re-election — 57% said Trump is guilty of abusing the power of his office.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) was caught on video flatly denying that she had accepted campaign contributions from both the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and drug company giant Eli Lilly.

Collins has, in fact, received contributions from both sources.

Politico: “The outside group Maine Momentum is dramatically escalating its bombardment of Collins over the last weeks of December, honing in on the second anniversary of the GOP’s tax reform law that Collins (R-Maine) supported in 2017, which Democrats believe is a vulnerability in her likely race against statehouse Speaker Sara Gideon.”

“The group planned to run $60,000 in ads over the next three weeks focusing on the law. But the group behind the buy is tripling its investment over the end of the year: Now instead of $180,000 over a three-week period, the group will now spend $540,000 on the ad, punctuating the edge Democrats currently have on the airwaves in the state.”

Politico: “Her reelection contest is already on track to be the state’s most expensive race ever. And Trump is eager to compete for the state’s four Electoral College votes with a campaign aimed at white, working-class voters.”

“If she votes to acquit the president, the state’s resurgent Democratic Party and its national allies are likely to clobber her as out of step with the state’s light blue hue. And if she votes to remove Trump from office after a Senate trial, she’ll risk dampening support from the conservative base and raising the ire of the president himself.”

Portland Press Herald: “Gideon has shown early success tapping into the smaller-dollar, online donations that experts say are increasingly important in competitive races… Maine voters won’t select the next senator for more than a year, but Collins and Gideon – Maine’s House speaker and the best-funded Democrat in the race – have already amassed more contributions than all but one other U.S. Senate race in the state’s history and every other House and gubernatorial contest.”

“And with nearly $13 million in combined donations so far, the candidates will easily surpass the $14 million raised by Collins and her 2008 opponent, former U.S. Rep. Tom Allen, by the end of the year.”