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Where Things Stand: Loudmouthed Former Guv Gets Surprising Endorsement For Comeback Bid

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September 22, 2021 6:15 p.m.

Susan Collins refused to endorse Trump in 2016, and she voted to remove him during his 2020 impeachment trial.

But in 2022, she will be supporting the self-declared proto-Trump Paul LePage. (“I was Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular,” the former two-term governor of Maine once opined.)

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