ME-SEN: Can Susan Collins survive Trump's takeover of the Republican Party?
If she was worried about running as an underdog for the first time in a quarter century, it didn’t show.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, campaigning last month in Rangeley, talked with small-business owners along Main Street like old friends, and some undoubtedly were.
“I love this, I really do. My bus tour is always my favorite part of the campaign,” Collins said during a break between events.
Her cheery demeanor belied the fact that she is in the toughest re-election fight of her political career, but the day also was illustrative of her public campaigning in 2020 in the middle of a pandemic – carefully choreographed visits with friendly audiences far removed from the chaos of Washington. The strategy is well suited for the 67-year-old Republican, who is running for re-election on experience and the power of incumbency.
“No matter where I am in the state, I can point to having made a difference,” she said, rattling off projects for which she has secured federal funding.
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She is a private citizen....in a hospital in Maine, fighting for her life from covid in January!
I’m just hoping that last part is in her future. 
