2026-10-21T18:20:34-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
_缅因州刘易斯顿 —— 共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯的竞选理念十分简单：她可以与任何人坐下来沟通。周三，她确实做到了这一点，与转而投身无党派阵营的民主党人乔·曼钦以及满屋子的缅因州选民共进早餐三明治，向各个政治派别的选民宣传自己的主张。
“她不是特朗普派参议员，既不是共和党参议员，也不是民主党参议员，”周三上午与柯林斯共进早餐后，曼钦对记者表示，“她是代表缅因州的美国参议员。”
柯林斯是唯一一位在特朗普总统输掉的州寻求连任的共和党参议员。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻将这场竞选评级为势均力敌。不过，正在竞选第六个任期的柯林斯曾多次在艰难的连任竞选中胜出，支持率也高于其他共和党候选人。2020年，尽管特朗普以9个百分点的差距输掉缅因州，柯林斯仍以超过8个百分点的优势获胜。
柯林斯与曼钦都曾与本党产生分歧。曼钦在离开民主党并于2024年退休前，一直在参议院代表深红州西弗吉尼亚州。
周三，当被问及特朗普的特使史蒂夫·维特科夫称俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京因释放一名被关押的美国公民而堪称“人道主义者”时，柯林斯努力与特朗普划清界限。当时她正在参观当地的新百伦工厂，这个问题引得曼钦明显摇头表示反对。柯林斯则直截了当地回答“不”。
“我会将普京描述为战争贩子、暴徒。他绝对不是人道主义者，他是乌克兰战争的侵略者，”她说道。她还表示，不支持特朗普豁免对俄新制裁并与莫斯科达成柴油进口协议的决定，认为这将让俄罗斯获得更多资金用于打击乌克兰。
长期以来在部分特朗普的议程上投下反对票的柯林斯，也批评了总统对伊朗局势的处理。在辩论中，她曾表示总统没有好的应对方案，冲突应该结束。她的民主党对手特洛伊·杰克逊认为，柯林斯的批评毫无诚意。
“她是拨款委员会主席。如果她想阻止这场战争，她可以切断战争拨款，”杰克逊在上周的一场辩论中说道，“但她不愿意这么做，因为唐纳德·特朗普希望这样，而这就是即将发生的事情。”
类似的质疑也出现在柯林斯早餐会场外。一群抗议者高呼要求这位现任议员退休，并手持印有布雷特·卡瓦诺头像的标语和展板，暗指柯林斯投票确认这位最高法院大法官的举动。当柯林斯走出场地接受媒体采访时，身着亮红色服装的柯林斯支持者以“再干六年”的口号盖过了抗议声，她的竞选巴士也挡住了示威者的视线。
曾于2002年至2008年在州议会任职的刘易斯顿民主党人伊莱恩·马卡斯参与了抗议。她表示感谢柯林斯的公共服务，并称她“确实是个好人”，但认为这远远不够。
“她只是投票立场错误，”马卡斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，“她完全紧跟总统的步调。”
柯林斯则辩称，自己经常违背特朗普的意愿投票。
马卡斯呼应了杰克逊的攻击口径。“只有当她的反对票无关紧要时，她才会与特朗普意见相左，”她说。她表示自己认识杰克逊——这位前州参议院议长，两人曾在州议会共事，相信杰克逊会“倾听”缅因州选民的声音。
Sen. Susan Collins enlists Manchin to woo Maine moderates as she distances herself from Trump
2026-10-21T18:20:34-0400 / CBS News
Lewiston, Maine — Republican Sen. Susan Collins is campaigning on a simple idea: She can sit across the table from anyone. On Wednesday, she did it literally, sharing breakfast sandwiches with Democrat-turned-independent Joe Manchin and a roomful of Maine voters as she makes her case to people of every political stripe.
“She’s not a Trump senator. She’s not a Republican senator or a Democrat senator,” Manchin told reporters after dining with Collins in the morning. “She’s an American senator that represents her state of Maine.”
Collins is the only Republican senator up for reelection in a state that President Trump lost. CBS News rates the race a toss-up. But Collins, who is running for a sixth term, has a history of surviving tough reelection battles and outrunning other Republicans. In 2020, she won by more than 8 points, even as Mr. Trump lost Maine by 9 points.
Both Collins and Manchin — who represented deep-red West Virginia in the Senate before leaving the Democratic Party and retiring in 2024 — have a history of clashing with their respective parties.
Collins worked to distance herself when pressed on Mr. Trump on Wednesday. While touring a local New Balance factory, she was asked about Trump envoy Steve Witkoff calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “humanitarian” for releasing a jailed U.S. citizen. The question drew a visible reaction from Manchin, who shook his head. Collins responded with a flat “no.”
“I would describe Putin as a warmonger, a thug. He’s certainly not a humanitarian. He is the aggressor in the war against Ukraine,” she said. She also said she does not support Mr. Trump’s decision to waive new sanctions on Russia and strike a diesel deal with Moscow to import Russian diesel, arguing it will give Russia more funding to attack Ukraine.
Collins, who has long defected from parts of Mr. Trump’s agenda, has also criticized the president’s handling of the Iran war. In debates, she has said the president did not have a good plan and that the conflict should end. Her Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, doesn’t believe she’s sincere in her rebukes.
“She’s the chair of appropriations. If she wants to stop the war, she can cut the funding off for the war,” Jackson said at a debate last week. “But she’s not willing to do that because Donald Trump wants this and that’s what is going to happen.”
Similar skepticism popped up outside of Collins’ breakfast stop. A group of protesters shouted for the incumbent to retire and held signs and cutouts of Brett Kavanaugh’s face, a reference to her vote to confirm the Supreme Court justice. Collins’ supporters, dressed in bright red, drowned them out with chants of “six more years,” when she stepped outside to talk to the press and her tour bus blocked the demonstrators from view.
Elaine Makas, a Lewiston Democrat who served in the state legislature from 2002 to 2008, joined the protest. She said she’s grateful for Collins’ service and calls her “genuinely a nice person,” but argued that is not enough.
“She’s just voting wrong,” Makas told CBS News. “She’s fallen completely in line with the president.”
Collins has argued that she frequently votes against Mr. Trump’s wishes.
Makas echoed Jackson’s line of attack. “She only disagrees with him when her vote doesn’t matter,” she said. She said she personally knows Jackson, a former state Senate president, from their time in the legislature and believes he’ll “listen” to Mainers.
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