Susan Collins Runs Away From JD Vance In Maine

JD Vance has a rally today in Brewer, Maine, but Susan Collins is nowhere to be seen.
Susan Collins Runs Away From JD Vance In Maine
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By Ed Scarce — August 24, 2026

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Maine today, holding a rally in the Bangor-Brewer area, presumably to bolster Republican candidates. However, one notable absence will be U.S. Senator Susan Collins. Though she spent yesterday in Madison, a short drive from Brewer, Maine, she won't be attending the Vance rally. I wonder why? Is she afraid the stink of the Trump administration will attach itself to her more than it already has?

Source: Political Zoom

Harry Reid famously said about Susan Collins, “She’s always there when you don’t need her.” That sums up the senator from Maine pretty well. Collins maintains the facade of being a moderate by voting against Trump interests when her vote isn’t needed and towing the Trump line with her votes when the vote is crucial. This is why she’s been compared to Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown; many people keep thinking that one day she’ll change and then BAM! Up goes the football once again.

So why is Collins running from Vance when presumably he is in the state to shore up her senate seat? Very good question. The most obvious is that in increasingly blue Maine Collins does not want to identify with MAGA, feeling it the death knell to do so.

Unfortunately, with Collins’ voting record, it becomes a little hard to disabuse people of the fact that Collins is Trump’s handmaiden. How will Collins overcome this handicap?

Good question again. Watch her like a hawk for the final weeks lead up to the midterms election. Collins will do whatever gymnastics she can possibly do to appear the moderate, independent sort, before returning to Mitch McConnell’s gameplan and being a Trump toady. It should be entertaining to watch.

Susan Collins will avoid him like the plague.

Maine will be one of the most affected states with this current idiotic Trump trade war on Canada. That spells bad news for Collins, and she knows it.

When asked about this yesterday, she said she could not make it because of a scheduling conflict, which is odd, because she has no public events scheduled for the day. It must be some private "personal schedule," right?

Susan Collins lives about 7 miles away in Bangor from the event venue JD Vance was at in Brewer.

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