Yahoo News Obama endorses challenger to Maine's Susan Collins, under fire for Kavanaugh confirmation
Former President Barack Obama released a list of endorsements for the 2020 elections on Monday that included Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon, who is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. The race could help decide which party controls the Senate for at least the next two years.
Our countrys future hangs on this election, and it wont be easy. But pandemics have a way of cutting through a lot of noise and spin to remind us of what is real, and what is important, Obama said in a statement that accompanied his endorsement of 51 candidates for the House and five for the Senate. Elections matter. And we need Americans of all political stripes to get involved in our politics and our public life like never before.
Gideon is the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, and the two most recent polls (by Colby College and Public Policy Polling) of her race against Collins show her with a 5-point lead.
Collins, a moderate, pro-choice Republican who was elected to the Senate in 1996, has drawn the ire of Democrats for her votes in favor of President Trumps tax cuts as well as her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice, based on her understanding that he would abide by precedent in cases involving the right to abortion.
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