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"We can't eat road salt," Troy Jackson told Susan Collins in a debate moment that went viral.

Susan Collins faces Democrat Troy Jackson in Maine's Senate race as New England's last Republican senator fights to prove centrism still works.

Top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said US-Canada trade negotiations have “picked up” and are “gathering steam,” two days after the Trump administration modified Canadian tariffs to benefit some Maine businesses following lobbying by Senator Susan Collins.

President Donald Trump this week rolled back select tariffs on Canada, marking a strategic decision that could boost incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in a tight midterm election race just days before Maine’s voters head to the polls. Collins, embroiled in a fiercely competitive battle against Democrat Troy Jackson, has long pressed Trump for release […]

Collins, locked in a tight race with Democratic challenger Troy Jackson, issued a statement saying she'd spoken with Trump's top trade negotiator, Jamieson Greer, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick "about the toll tariffs are taking on Maine families, businesses, farmers, and growers.''

President Trump is exempting some Canadian products from U.S. tariffs, a move viewed as a late attempt to bolster Republican Sen. Susan Collins as she faces a tough reelection fight in border-state Maine.

Democrat Troy Jackson was two points ahead of Collins in a Suffolk University poll released Oct. 14.

The move was announced by Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who faces a tough re-election fight amid rising prices.

Abdul el Sayed wasn’t the only progressive Democrat helped by a survey from Wedgewood, the fraudulent pollster that is roiling Michigan’s Senate race. Wedgewood also produced a July “poll” that showed Troy Jackson leading Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) as Democrats in Maine were deciding who should replace their embattled Senate nominee, Graham Platner. The purported […]

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Friday that nine categories of Canadian products “crucial for Maine’s agricultural industries” will be exempted from U.S. tariffs. The types of exempted goods include paperboard cartons, plastic boxes, refrigeration equipment, agricultural cleaning and sorting machinery, packing and wrapping machinery and seaweed and algae products, among others, according to a press release...

Sen. Susan Collins, who’s in a tough re-election fight, said she secured from the Trump administration tariff exemptions on some agricultural and forestry items.

Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, said he's not worried by close polls and wonders why his opponent is "not beating me by more."

The U.S. will issue tariff exemptions on several categories of Canadian imports, Sen. Susan Collins announced Friday.

The Trump administration is expanding exemptions of tariffs on some Canadian products, a move that may help boost Republican Senator Susan Collins’ reelection campaign in Maine.

The Trump administration is considering lifting 50% tariffs on certain Canadian agricultural and forestry products, a move that could provide political relief to Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and other Republicans facing competitive midterm elections.

Susan Collins faces Democrat Troy Jackson in Maine's senate race, but voters in Bangor say her three decades of familiarity may be impossible to beat.

Susan Collins is running to be the “soul of the Senate.” Troy Jackson isn’t.

President Donald Trump is lifting tariffs on some Canadian goods, a move that could boost Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins in her reelection fight, though the White House said it would impose tariffs on other Canadian products, including valves and carpets, in their place. The trade war with Canada, Maine’s biggest trade partner, has strained ...

Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) suggested this week that Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) should leave the Republican Party to become an independent. Manchin, who made the switch from the Democratic Party to become an independent in 2024, has repeatedly pushed for more lawmakers to break away from the two-party system. The former senator told...

The former West Virginia senator is running a project to elect more members of Congress outside the major parties.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has called on a Republican-aligned super PAC to withdraw a radio ad mocking her Democrat opponent, former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, over his relationship with his longtime partner.

One of the most closely watched Senate races in the country is unfolding in Maine, where five-term Republican Susan Collins faces a tough challenge from Democrat Troy Jackson, a former logger and state legislator. The race is rated a toss-up, with both parties fighting for a seat that could determine control of the Senate. Lisa Desjardins reports from Maine.

Susan Collins and Troy Jackson are deadlocked at 49% in the Maine Senate race as Trump's job approval sits 25 points underwater in the state.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins enlisted former Democrat Joe Manchin, now an independent, to help widen her appeal to moderate voters in Maine. CBS News' Taurean Small reports.

The Maine Senate race between Republican incumbent Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson presents a laboratory for public sentiment on Trump's Canada tariffs.