Susan Collins wins political fight of her career, beating Sara Gideon to take 5th term – Bangor Daily News
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U.S. Sen. Susan Collins won a historic fifth term in Tuesday’s election after a bruising race that began as a referendum on President Donald Trump but ended in a resounding win for the incumbent as voters across Maine split their tickets.
The incumbent Republican’s easy victory came after she trailed House Speaker Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, in every independent public poll in 2020. Several showed a tight race in recent weeks, though surveys showed undecided voters breaking for Collins, though operatives on both sides were saying internal polling was close.
CANDIDATES
VOTES
PERCENT
Susan Collins (R)
403476
51%
Sara Gideon (D)
335573
42.4%
Lisa Savage (U)
38626
4.9%
Max Linn (U)
13041
1.6%
Collins’ victory comes as Republicans candidates across the country outperformed expectations in Senate races, giving the party a good chance of holding onto the chamber even if Trump loses to Democrat Joe Biden. If she serves out her term, her tenure will match the longest by a Maine senator. Collins’ idol, Margaret Chase Smith, lost her 1972 bid for a fifth term.
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