Susan Collins Wins Election for a Fifth Time

Senator Susan Collins has been inaugurated into bureau for her fifth time. Her win comes from Democratic House Speaker Sara Gideon conceded a race. Around 1:30 p.m (EST), Nov 4, 2020, a news pennyless about Collins win.

Collins was one of 4 possibilities on a list for Maine voters. In Maine, they opinion with a element they call rank-choice voting. This means that Mainers have to arrange their choices from a initial choice to last.

Sen. Collins managed to win a infancy of Maine’s initial choice, creation all additional ranked-choice votes unnecessary. Gideon announced that she conceded to her supporters. She serve combined that she called and congratulated Collins on her win.

Collins has prolonged extrinsic herself as a bipartisan centrist who has been peaceful to work with both parties to solve a Nation’s issues. However, her opponents constantly indicted her of being a monitor of President Donald Trump.

Gideon conceded a competition before Maine’s rank-choice voting indispensable to be invoked. If she had selected to wait for rank-choice to be invoked; she could have had her opinion combined to a sum of Maine’s second-choice votes.

During her debate to voters in Bangor, Collins announced that she is “the initial chairman given Maine directly inaugurated a senators to win a fifth term.” During a 2020 Senate election, there was during slightest $100,000 spent on campaigns.

Collins took a theatre outward of a Hilton Garden Inn as Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing” blared opposite a loudspeakers. According to a Press Herald, Collins after told reporters that people are sleepy of polarization and they wish to see Congress indeed work together.

She is also partial of a Small Business Task Force with Senators Jim Rich (R-ID), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Marco Rubio (R-FL). Together a colleagues introduced a Small Business Access to Recovery Capital Act, to enhance service measures underneath a SBA’s 7(a) loan program. This would be in further to a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Collins co-authored.

Collins also co-authored a second PPP excusable loan underneath apart legislation.

As a co-author of a Paycheck Protection Program, we have worked to assistance tiny businesses stay afloat and continue profitable their employees. This check would element a PPP by providing stretched service underneath SBA’s 7(a) loan module to assistance tiny businesses continue this open health and mercantile crisis.

Written by Sheena Robertson

Sources:

Susan Collins: Collins, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Expand Relief Measures underneath SBA’s 7(a)
Loan Program

Press Herald: Susan Collins wins 5th Senate tenure as Sara Gideon concedes by Kevin Miller

Spectrum News: Senate Latest: GOP Sen. Collins wins reelection in Maine by Associated Press

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