Augusta, Maine – Senator Susan Collins’ role in the overturning of Roe v. Wade is a major vulnerability as she faces the “fight of her political life” with an underwater approval rating, according to new reporting from Jezebel.

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Jezebel: Susan Collins’ Approval Rating Is in the Toilet 3 Years After ‘Dobbs’
By Susan Rinkunas
June 25, 2025

  • Three years ago this week, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and unleashed devastation across the entire country with abortion bans and increased pregnancy criminalization.

  • Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) … [will] face re-election next November for the first time since the fall of Roe and, wouldn’t you know it, she appears to be in the fight of her political life.

  • A Morning Consult survey released in April found that the 72-year-old Collins is the second most unpopular Senator in the U.S. behind only Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell. The quarterly update found that 51% of Maine voters disapprove of Collins, compared to 42% who approve. That’s a net approval of negative 9 points. Her net approval also declined more than any other Senator since the previous report.

  • This week, the Maine Democratic Party launched a website to remind voters of Collins’ disastrous anti-abortion votes, but her team waved it away as a “tired” talking point. Let’s unpack that.

  • Collins voted to confirm two of the Justices who overturned Roe, first Neil Gorsuch in 2017, then Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. Collins infamously cast the deciding vote to confirm Kavanaugh and claimed that she not only believed he supported the Roe precedent and that people were being alarmist, but also dismissed the sexual assault allegations against him by saying he had the “judicial temperament” to be on the court. That feels like a lifetime ago, but the vote was 50-48, meaning Collins single-handedly put him on the court.

  • After the Dobbs decision overturning Roe leaked in May 2022, Collins acted concerned.[...]later that year, Collins also voted against a Democratic bill to codify Roe into federal law[...]

  • Collins’ campaign spokesperson is acting like her votes are no big deal.

  • Yet, in November 2020, the fall of Roe was merely a hypothetical—it’s now a reality. And Collins was polling much better ahead of the 2020 race than she is now. At this point in that cycle (the first quarter of 2019), she was at 52% approve and 39% disapprove.

  • Collins also voted to confirm some disastrous appeals court judges, including the Fifth Circuit’s Judge James Ho. In August 2023, Ho wrote that anti-abortion doctors should be able to sue the FDA to restrict the abortion drug mifepristone and cited “aesthetic injury” precedent from wildlife cases.[...]Ho is considered a Supreme Court contender.

  • No matter what her campaign says publicly, Collins is likely very concerned.

See more: NEW: Maine Democrats Launch “Collins Doomed Roe” Video and Website; ICYMI: Maine Dems launch website targeting Collins over abortion ahead of Dobbs anniversary [The Hill]; Maine Dems Call out Susan Collins in Portland for her Role in Overturning Roe v Wade; What Mainers are Watching: Maine Dems Call Out Collins for Her Role in Overturning Roe v. Wade

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