Susan Collins

"We're simply too close to the election, and in the interest of being fair to the American people," the Republican senator said.

Maine will be the first state in U.S. history to use this voting process in a presidential election.

"I think it is particularly important that the Senate take it up and confirm this nomination before the election," the Texas Republican said.

"I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Justice Scalia," the Republican senator from Alaska said.

Arizona Sen. Martha McSally was 8 points behind Democratic candidate Mark Kelly in the same week he had to apologize for a racist joke.

The Republican-proposed $500 billion stimulus deal left out provisions for another round of stimulus checks. It was defeated by Democrats.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that President Donald Trump "should have been straightforward with the American people" about the "hard facts" of the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday.

Democrats would need to win at least four Republican seats while maintaining all their current seats to take control of the upper chamber of Congress.

Sen. Susan Collins' reelection campaign posted a photo to social media that appears to feature a campaign sign for President Donald Trump that was digitally blurred out.

Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon has an eight-point lead of incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins.

Based on polling, the contest is still too close to call, according to Quinnipiac University.

Obama said the people he was endorsing made him "optimistic" about the country's future long after November's election.

Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, on Wednesday, released a new campaign video, saying she won't "back down" after the Lincoln Project spends $1 million on ads attacking her.

Poll data indicated that 51 percent of Maine voters held an unfavorable opinion about Republican Senator Susan Collins.

Senate Republican Party campaigns have broken multiple fundraising records this year as they look to hold onto their slim majority.

Democrats hope to flip at least four seats while maintaining all their current seats in order to take control of the Senate.

The Democratic state lawmaker will now be immersed in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country, as Collins tries to defend her seat to win a fifth term amid public polling support that's waned in recent years.

The Bangor residents set up a voter registration booth at the "retirement party" demonstration in Maine.

A spokesperson for Collins' re-election campaign dismissed the results as coming from a "Democratic polling firm."

The U.S. Senate race has shaped up to be the most expensive in Maine's history.

"The Trump Administration's decision to eliminate protections for transgender patients is simply wrong," Collins said.

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski, James Lankford, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse and Tim Scott have all criticized the Trump administration's response to protesters in Lafayette Park.

McConnell recently said the country should "take a pause" on emergency spending bills, adding that the federal government could not "prop the economy up forever."

The president fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, prompting Republican Utah Senator Mitt Romney to describe the move as a "threat to accountable democracy."

Republican Senators Mitt Romney and Susan Collins offered two of the most direct challenges to the Trump administration and federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic during a virtual hearing Tuesday.

"We are doing enormous damage every week that goes by where people are not allowed to work," Senator Pat Toomey said.

Both Collins and New York Senator Chuck Schumer argued for the funding not to be included in the 2009 stimulus package meant to infuse a sluggish U.S. economy in the midst of a recession.

The Public Policy Polling poll found that Senators Susan Collins and Martha McSally have high disapproval ratings in their respective states.

Sara Gideon, speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, has a 1-point lead over the senator.

Maine Senator Susan Collins told CBS News Tuesday she believes President Donald Trump has "learned a big lesson" from his impeachment while Collins' opponent in Maine's upcoming senate race, Sara Gideon, said she would have voted to remove the president from office.