(FeaturedHeadlines.com) – Five-time GOP Senator Susan Collins from Maine announced that she will write in Nikki Haley’s name on her presidential ballot later this year as she reiterated her opposition to former President Donald Trump.
Haley ran against Trump in the Republican presidential primaries earlier this year but failed to garner impressive support from the voters. Despite ending her campaign, she still finds support from top conservative lawmakers like Collins who are neither backing Trump nor Biden.
Collins stated that Haley is still her favorite Republican candidate for the White House and writing her name on the ballot will be her way to express this support.
The Maine lawmaker has previously called Haley an “extremely well-qualified” candidate during the primary elections, adding that the former US ambassador to the UN is intellectually capable of leading the United States out of the prevailing crisis.
Even when Haley abandoned her White House run and Trump unofficially won the Republican primaries, Collins argued that she voted to convict Trump during the second impeachment proceedings, and her reluctance to support him should not surprise anyone.
Back in 2021, Collins joined all Democrats and six other Republicans who voted “guilty” against Trump just days before he was supposed to leave the presidency. At the time, she claimed that Trump violated his constitutional oath to participate in the peaceful transition of power. She also argued that her vote had nothing to do with what Trump said during the January 6 chaotic events.
Collins also won her Senate seat in the 2020 election cycle in Maine, a state which Trump lost by more than a 9% margin. However, this time, Trump is seeing a massive popularity boost in Maine, where he is just lagging behind Biden by almost a 2% margin.
Meanwhile, the Republican senator also expressed pity for Joe Biden’s debate performance, claiming that we all have loved ones who face cognitive decline with age, which just worsens every day.
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