Republicans once critical of Collins now circle wagons around her
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 states senior U.S. senator Susan Collins.
Collins, now the only Republican from New England in Congress, had weeks earlier denounced the partys nominee for president, writing in a Washington Post guest column that she wouldnt 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 LePages most vocal supporters.
The former governors 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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