GOP Sen. Susan Collins
Susan Margaret CollinsWe need a (common) 'sense of the Senate' resolution on transition planning The Hill's Morning Report - Biden wins Arizona, confers with Dem leaders; Trump tweets Deadlock leaves no clear path for lame-duck coronavirus deal MORE (Maine) says she intends to run for reelection in 2020, though she hasn't announced a final decision.
"That is my intention," Collins told Time in article published Thursday when asked about running for a fifth term in the Senate.
Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonObama hits Trump for refusing to concede, says there's 'no legal basis' for challenges Overnight Defense: Another Defense official resigns | Pentagon chief says military 'remains strong' despite purge | Top contender for Biden DOD secretary would be historic pick Biden's win is not a policy mandate — he should govern accordingly MORE won in 2016.
Brett Michael KavanaughConservative justices help save Obamacare — for now Will the Supreme Court take ObamaCare off life-support? Pavlich: Hollow calls for unity MORE last year, when she provided him with the 50th vote needed to be confirmed."I believe that she is a survivor of a sexual assault and that this trauma has upended her life," Collins said on the Senate floor, referring to Kavanaugh's first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.
But Collins said other individuals allegedly at the party, where Ford says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s, could not corroborate Ford's account. And, she warned, that if senators rejected Kavanaugh over the accusations it would be "hugely damaging to this confirmation process."
Collins, who was first elected to the Senate in 1996, won her 2008 reelection bid by more than 22 percentage points. That margin widened to 37 points in 2014.
Willard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyWe need a (common) 'sense of the Senate' resolution on transition planning The Hill's Morning Report - Biden wins Arizona, confers with Dem leaders; Trump tweets Biden has spoken with some GOP senators, chief of staff says MORE four years earlier.