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Susan Collins Gives Hilarious Answer to Whether She'll Bring Up Troy Jackson's 'Personal Life' in Maine Senate Race

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Susan Collins Gives Hilarious Answer to Whether She'll Bring Up Troy Jackson's 'Personal Life' in Maine Senate Race

The Democrats, it seems, cannot nominate someone without a sordid past that’s not thoroughly ridiculous in the critical Maine Senate race — and Sen. Susan Collins is having a fun time pointing it out.

In an interview with Politico, Collins was asked whether her opponent’s “personal life” ought to “be relevant to the campaign?”

No, of course not, she said.

“I’m not going to bring up the fact that the mother of his two children is his second cousin,” she said.

Delivered like a perfect sketch comedy routine. Well played, senator.

So, for those of you who haven’t been following the Maine Democratic Senate saga, or have short memories, let me get you up to speed. Last year, the Democratic establishment decided that it was going to clear the field for Gov. Janet Mills in what supposed to be a one-foot putt in terms of a Senate-seat pick-up in a midterm cycle that favors Democrats.

There were several issues with this. The first is that, while Democratic leadership thought Mills was perfect, Mills herself didn’t exactly seem to want the seat.

Aside from the fact that, at 78 — 79 by the time the next Congress is seated — she would become the oldest elected freshman senator in the body’s history, she ran a campaign — when she eventually declared — that it would be a kindness to call half-hearted. The other thing is that, by the time she had declared, hobbyist oysterman and progressive activist Graham........

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