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New Poll Shows Sen Collins Heavily Underwater With Mainers

New Poll Shows Sen Collins Heavily Underwater With Mainers

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A new poll is giving Democrats some hope against longtime Republican Maine U.S. Senator Susan Collins.

A Public Policy Polling survey released Tuesday gives Collins an approval rating of just 24 percent, with 61 percent of voters disapproving of her.

In addition, a large majority of people who voted for both Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican President Donald Trump disapprove of her.

The Public Policy Polling survey shows 81% of Harris voters think she votes with Trump too often while 73% of Trump voters think she doesn’t vote with Trump often enough. Only 10% think she’s striking the right balance.

The poll shows 69% of Trump voters think Collins is ‘too liberal,’ while 69% of Harris voters think she’s ’too conservative.’

Also. majorities of both Harris (19/66) and Trump (28/51) voters call Collins weak, and overall just 24% characterize her as strong with 59% calling her weak.

The poll shows her deeply unpopular across the board with Republicans and Democrats, although Collins has faced long odds to win reelection in the past.

She was heavily outraised in her 2020 campaign by  then-Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon and consistently trailed in the polls, but still won reelection by a 51 to 42 percent margin.

Collins is now seeking her sixth six year term in the Senate after first being election in 1996.

The new poll was conducted on behalf of Senate Majority PAC, a group with close ties to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Public Policy Polling interviewed 569 Maine voters on March 20th and 21st as  64% of surveys were conducted by text and 36% were conducted by phone. The margin of error is +/-4.1%.

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