ME-SEN: Outside group attacks Maine's Susan Collins on prescription drug pricing
While national Democrats are keeping up the pressure on Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins over her 2018 vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and her impending role in the Senate impeachment trial, one national issue advocacy group is keeping its anti-Collins message more local.
Majority Forward, the nonprofit arm of the Senate Majority PAC, which is aligned with Senate Democratic leadership, is hitting Collins over prescription drug costs with a statewide six-figure TV and digital ad campaign beginning Tuesday.
Collins, who announced she’s running for a fifth term late last month, is a top Democratic target as one of just two Republican senators up for reelection this year in a state Hillary Clinton carried in 2016.
Trump lost Maine by about 3 points in 2016, but he overwhelmingly carried the northern 2nd District, where Collins is from, which earned him an additional electoral vote. Collins’ vote for Kavanaugh has energized progressives and moderate voters, who have raised nearly $4 million for her eventual Democratic challenger.
But Majority Forward’s latest ad, like its first Maine TV spot launched in November, focuses on health care and accountability.
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