Collins bleeding support from Republicans in Maine, even former allies

It's a growing phenomenon: The never-Trumpers who are expanding their no-go list to include those Senate Republicans who are standing quietly by, watching Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell destroy everything nice. Here's another one of them, and it's going to raise Maine Sen. Susan Collins' fret level significantly. "Sadly, I can no longer support Senator Susan Collins," writes Mainer Jane Calderwood. "She has proven unwilling to stand up to the President and too enamored of political power to speak up for the good people of Maine. I am tired of hearing about how 'concerned' she is. These times demand strength and action and she has shown neither."

Fine, another letter to the editor about Collins. What's the big deal? The big deal is that Calderwood is a former longtime staffer, and eventual chief of staff, to Maine's other long-serving senator, Olympia Snowe. "Like my former boss," she writes, "I have always formed my views and opinions based on the individual issue and the facts, not the person or party pushing the issue." Unlike, she doesn't say even though her piece screams it, Susan Collins.

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Calderwood continues mostly bashing Trump, writing that she has joined the Lincoln Project’s Lincoln Women Coalition, "a group of current and former Republican women who are fed up with the civil unrest, blatant misogyny and failed leadership of Donald Trump over the last four years." As opposed to Collins, the current Republican woman who is enabling all of the above, Calderwood totally implies. "His unwillingness—or inability—I’m not sure which—to address the COVID-19 pandemic is unbelievable and unforgivable, and only one of many examples, though the most damaging to date, of his unwillingness to protect the American public.

"I’m tired of waiting for the current president to live up to his oath of office, and that is why I am a Lincoln Woman," Calderwood concludes. “And where is Collins?” is the unspoken question hanging over the piece. Not with the women in the Lincoln coalition, clearly.

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