An “ugly” new poll released this week from the Bangor Daily News and Critical Insights shows a “further drop in approval… since last fall” for Senator Susan Collins as her standing among Maine voters continues to plummet. Collins’ approval rating declined again to just 37%, down from 42% last fall, while the share of voters who disapprove of her performance has spiked to 52%. Collins’ net approval rating is now 15 points underwater, a stunning deficit for the longtime politician whose popularity is now barely half of what it once was.
With every new poll released, Collins continues to look weaker, making her one of the most vulnerable incumbent Republican senators of 2020. Earlier this year, Collins replaced Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as the nation’s most unpopular senator in Morning Consult’s polling, lost a key endorsement from Planned Parenthood who called her “not the leader she once was,” and earned scathing reviews from the Portland Press Herald’s editorial board for her “troubling” and “confusing” positions.
For the first time in any re-election Collins has faced over the past two decades, all three of the major nonpartisan election analysts have moved this race in Maine to a toss-up rating:
It’s no wonder the NRSC and Mitch McConnell’s super PAC have already been forced to reserve more than $12 million in TV ads in Maine between now and November: Collins’ increasingly poor standing among Maine voters has made her one of the most vulnerable incumbents of the cycle and yet another growing defensive liability on the Senate map for Washington Republicans.
Read the full poll results here.
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