Jackson campaign spokesperson Maggie Amjad says Collins will keep making excuses for her vote
Troy JacksonDemocratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine, through campaign spokesperson Maggie Amjad
Maggie Amjad, a spokesperson for Troy Jackson's U.S. Senate campaign, said Collins still says she does not regret her vote and will keep making excuses for her actions. She said Jackson will keep fighting to repair the damage Collins caused and to restore abortion rights nationwide.
“Even now, Collins proudly says she doesn’t regret her vote, and while she will keep making excuses for her actions, Troy will keep fighting to repair the damage she caused and restore abortion rights nationwide”
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Was Susan Collins's 2018 vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh justified after Dobbs?
In 2018 Susan Collins supported Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation, citing his discussion of precedent and Roe v. Wade. He joined the 2022 Dobbs opinion overruling Roe, which Collins said conflicted with what he had told her about long-standing precedent. In June 2026 she said she did not regret the confirmation vote while disagreeing with his Dobbs vote. Her critics argue that the confirmation enabled the loss of nationwide abortion protections.
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The 19th's report on Maine women over 60 who say Collins's vote for Kavanaugh cost her their trust. It quotes a spokesperson for Troy Jackson's Senate campaign.
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The 19th reports that the Maine Democratic Party chose Jackson to replace Graham Platner as its Senate nominee, and that his campaign has emphasized Collins's vote for Kavanaugh. It says polls suggest the two are running neck-and-neck.
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The article says the Kavanaugh emphasis is not new, because the 2020 effort to unseat Collins also focused on it, and that Reproductive Freedom for All endorsed Jackson at the end of August.
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The case asks whether Collins's 2018 vote to confirm Kavanaugh was justified after Dobbs. Amjad, speaking for the Jackson campaign, said Collins still says she does not regret her vote and will keep making excuses, and that Jackson will keep fighting to repair the damage she caused. That rejects Collins's defense of the vote and says it did harm, so we labeled it Condemned. The article places the remark in its discussion of the campaign's emphasis on the Kavanaugh vote.
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