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Feb 20, 2020 · Susan Collins - for years, her brand has been the moderate Republican - independent, a workhorse, a senator, powerful within her own party, even as Democrats sought her out as a partner.
Collins is a self-described "moderate Republican". She has occasionally been referred to as a "liberal Republican" relative to her colleagues. [1] [2] [3] In 2013, the National Journal gave Collins a score of 55% conservative and 45% liberal. [4]
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Sep 22, 2021 · But Susan Collins, one of the last Republican senators anyone could describe as “moderate,” is from Maine, which has a real, viable, and lately very Trumpy Republican Party. So while she can ...
May 8, 2024 · Long characterized as a centrist and moderate, Collins was attacked as a “Republican in name only” by challengers from the political right, especially because she was willing to work with Democratic members of the Senate and with Pres. Barack Obama.
Nov 17, 2020 · At the end of the day, Collins won big — an enormous rout for Republicans worried about a Democratic takeover of both chambers of Congress, and a victory for moderate politics, ticket-splitting...
Mar 16, 2020 · Her fellow Maine senator was Olympia Snowe, a Republican who had, by 1997, already defined herself as a true moderate. For the next 15 years, journalists flattened them into one person. As The...
Collins has been described as a moderate Republican and a centrist, having voted with her party 59% of the time from 1997 to 2016. She voted with her party more often, about 87% of the time, in 2017, at the beginning of the Trump administration.
