If Sen. Susan Collins loses reelection, “a lot of it will be put at the feet of President Trump,” Washington Post reporter Dan Merica told Vox’s Today, Explained. | Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images With two weeks until the midterm elections, Democrats are comfortably favored to take the House. Their path to Senate control, though, is harder — and it could run through Maine, where longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins is in a tight race against former state Senate president Troy Jackson, a Democrat. When Collins first ran for Senate in 1996, she pledged to serve only two terms in the Senate. But 30 years later, she’s still in office despite the odds, as Maine has grown more blue around her. One secret to her political durability is her success in “bringing in the bacon” for Mainers: Her official Senate website features a map of projects that she says she helped fund as chair of the Senate Appropriations committee, including hospitals, bridges, affordable housing, public transportation, and water systems. This year, though, all of that money might not be enough for Mainers to look past their frustration with another Republican: President Donald Trump. To learn more about what Maine voters are thinking as they prepare...
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