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'Let's go, Little Donnie!' Maine Democrat taunts Trump with invite to 'help' Susan Collins · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: We are back live with a very, very, very fired
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  Speaker 1: up crowd at Rigby.
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  Speaker 2: Yard in Portland, Maine. The city where Troy Jackson and
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  Speaker 2: Susan Collins just wrapped up their first debate. And what
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  Speaker 2: is shaping up to be one of the most important
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  Speaker 2: Senate races in the country? I'm going to just keep
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  Speaker 2: restating that for you. I also noted earlier, but just
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  Speaker 2: to remind you, people have started voting here. People started
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  Speaker 2: voting yesterday. They were early voting yesterday. So things are happening.
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  Speaker 2: And while the two were only, there were only two
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  Speaker 2: podiums on the debate stage yesterday, A third name, you
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  Speaker 2: know who it was, was ever present tonight, as he
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  Speaker 2: always is, as he likes to be, I think, Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Senator Collins, I do want to ask, we've heard Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump's name several times here. So let me ask you directly.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump this week said that he might actually visit Maine.
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  Speaker 3: Will you stand with him if he does?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that President Trump is going to come
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  Speaker 4: to Maine. He's talking about going to a lot of
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  Speaker 4: different states. I've heard nothing from his office. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: not exactly his favorite senator.
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  Speaker 3: So yes or no? Do you have a yes or
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  Speaker 3: no to that?
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  Speaker 4: I would say that he is not coming to Maine.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me now is the man of the hour, Democratic
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  Speaker 2: nominee for Senate in the great state of Maine.
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  Speaker 3: I love it here.
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  Speaker 2: I've been here for two days, Troy Jackson. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for being here and taking that. And I know you've
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  Speaker 2: had a hell of a day already, so I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: you taking the time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's great to be with you.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, I really enjoy your show, and any
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  Speaker 5: chance I get to get on, I'm going to.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you're here. We came to you this time.
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  Speaker 2: So to catch people up, I mean, Trump told reporters,
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  Speaker 2: people watching probably know this, he mused about coming to Maine.
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  Speaker 2: Susan Collins said she hadn't heard from him. She said
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  Speaker 2: she didn't think he was going to come. I kind
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  Speaker 2: of wonder in moments like this if, like, your campaign
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  Speaker 2: might offer to pay for his travel to.
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  Speaker 3: The state of Maine.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I definitely think that he wants
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  Speaker 5: to come. I mean, I don't know if they're going
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  Speaker 5: to scream bloody murder to keep him away. But I mean,
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  Speaker 5: he wants his rubber stamp, Susan Collins, to win this election.
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  Speaker 5: So she'll keep doing tax cuts, you know, keep doing
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  Speaker 5: everything that the billionaire class wants, voting with him 96
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  Speaker 5: percent of the time. I mean, I'm sure he wants
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  Speaker 5: to try and come and save the election for her.
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  Speaker 5: But I think people in Maine know that they've gone
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  Speaker 5: too far and it's time for a big change that
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  Speaker 5: we can get government back in a way that we're
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  Speaker 5: proud of.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're watching Donald Trump, if you see this clip,
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  Speaker 2: it's your airfare.
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  Speaker 6: It's covered.
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  Speaker 3: Air Force One travel. Detroit Jackson campaign. Let's go, little Donnie.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, little Donnie.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's an invite.
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  Speaker 3: So we played this earlier. We played this clip earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, you asked Senator Collins if she would admit that
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  Speaker 2: she was wrong to have voted for Brett Kavanaugh because
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  Speaker 2: that vote cleared the way for the Supreme Court to
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  Speaker 2: overturn Roe v.
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  Speaker 6: Wade.
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  Speaker 2: You did an entire event about this in Bath that
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  Speaker 2: I went as well, too. And Senator Collins made clear
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  Speaker 2: that she didn't regret the vote. She's never said she
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  Speaker 2: regret the vote. And you used the question as an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to attack you on abortion rights. What did you
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  Speaker 2: make of that whole exchange there?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, she wanted to turn it around because
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  Speaker 5: she knows that her record has gotten awful on this.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that Susan Collins ever really cared to
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  Speaker 5: be for a woman's right to choose. I mean, we
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  Speaker 5: had Roe versus Wade, so it was easy, convenient for
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  Speaker 5: her to be able to say that. But she's put
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  Speaker 5: 60 judges, anti-abortion judges, onto the bench. Uh, she definitely
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  Speaker 5: was the deciding vote for Kavanaugh. And I think what
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  Speaker 5: she was trying to obviously get back to was that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, years ago, I wasn't as clear on this issue. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: And over time, I started listening to a lot of people,
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  Speaker 5: some of them in this room, about how reproductive rights
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  Speaker 5: is health care. And I've always believed that we should
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  Speaker 5: have health care. And so after a while, it became
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  Speaker 5: very clear to me that I was wrong. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm okay with saying I'm wrong. You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: obviously it doesn't give me great pleasure or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: But you've seen Susan Collins tonight. I mean, she won't
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  Speaker 5: say that she's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: She was wrong. I mean, 22 states have lost reproductive rights.
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  Speaker 5: And in Maine, if we hadn't had a strong legislature
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  Speaker 5: and a strong governor, we'd have been in trouble here too.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you about something you said, and
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  Speaker 2: you've said this before, but part of Susan Collins' pitch
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  Speaker 2: is that she can, you know, be an effective check
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  Speaker 2: on Donald Trump, that she can call him or she
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  Speaker 2: can call his administration and get things done. We hear
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  Speaker 2: that argument. I'm not validating it, but that's what she says, right?
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  Speaker 2: But tonight you said, you described her this way. She's
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  Speaker 2: like an arsonist who helps set the fire, and now
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  Speaker 2: she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to
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  Speaker 2: put it out. It's quite a visual.
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  Speaker 4: People like that analogy here.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me more about what you mean by that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you know, with the big bogus bill,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we're losing $ 3 billion in health care.
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  Speaker 3: We're losing SNAP benefits. We're losing heating assistance. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're losing so much.
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  Speaker 5: And she wants to crow about the fact that she
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  Speaker 5: advanced the bill so she could get a $ 190 million
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  Speaker 5: rural health care fund. Well, that's a pittance to what
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  Speaker 5: we're losing. I mean, if she had done nothing, we'd
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  Speaker 5: have been better off. And that's exactly what I meant
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  Speaker 5: was that, you know, she could have stopped that if
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  Speaker 5: she really cared about it. But she doesn't. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: she wants to do whatever Donald Trump wants. And right
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  Speaker 5: now we have birth centers closing, one hospital. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the health care industry knows they're in trouble
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  Speaker 5: because of that vote. And we're watching our health care
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  Speaker 5: system here in Maine crash so that Elon Musk could
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  Speaker 5: have more money. And it just I can't understand how
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  Speaker 5: anyone in their right mind can can actually defend that vote.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it seems to me, she has quite a,
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  Speaker 2: it's a tangled argument.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to call it a tangled argument a bit. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's trading our health care for Elon Musk
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  Speaker 5: getting tax cuts. For me, it's pretty clear what went on,
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  Speaker 5: and it really pisses me off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people see that. It pisses a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people off in this country.
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  Speaker 7: Let me ask you.
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  Speaker 3: About another....
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  Speaker 2: Another thing she tried to do in this debate, which
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  Speaker 2: was to at one point in the debate, she basically
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  Speaker 2: tried to make the argument that she was as supportive
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  Speaker 2: of Joe Biden's agenda and policies as she has been
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  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump. That is I don't I'm well, what
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  Speaker 2: did you make of that.
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  Speaker 3: When she was trying to make that argument?
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  Speaker 5: There were some real zingers in there that I had
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  Speaker 5: a hard time keeping up with because at one point
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  Speaker 5: she said that it was my fault that electricity costs
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  Speaker 5: were higher, but then she agreed that we had to
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  Speaker 5: do something to get our energy under control, which drives
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  Speaker 5: our energy prices.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is classic Susan Collins.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, she wants to be for everything until it
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  Speaker 5: becomes hard, and then she's not for it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she's all over the place. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: heard her tonight. voted for Iran, voted against Iran.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, she's classic about trying to be everything but
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  Speaker 5: never actually being anything for anyone.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you something.
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  Speaker 2: We have an MSNOW membership that we just started. We
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  Speaker 2: have a bunch of great members out there. A bunch
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  Speaker 2: of them sent me questions. So I want to give
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  Speaker 2: them an opportunity to ask you a question.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask it for them.
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  Speaker 2: So some of our MSNOW members, a member with the
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  Speaker 2: username JMT, hello JMT out there, asked how much of
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic campaigning mentions Collins' corruption case and are voters
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  Speaker 2: talking about it? This is referring to the ProPublica reporting,
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  Speaker 2: of course, about a bribery probe probe into Susan Collins'
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  Speaker 2: interactions with a defense contractor. She denies all wrongdoing. Are
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  Speaker 2: Maine voters talking about this? Is this something that's breaking through?
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  Speaker 2: What if, I mean, you grew up in politics here,
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  Speaker 2: you grew up here. What do you wish people understood
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  Speaker 2: about that story?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, they are talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think there's a lot of people that
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  Speaker 5: thinks that from years ago with Senator Collins to now,
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  Speaker 5: there's been a massive switch. She is voting with Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: She seems very scared to push back against him. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you know, very concerned all the time. And I think
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  Speaker 5: that that ProPublica investigation showed us why. I mean, the
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  Speaker 5: FBI was circling around They, you know, they've got receipts.
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  Speaker 5: They've got, you know, checks that went to her pack
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  Speaker 5: and they were investigated. And whenever Donald Trump came back in,
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  Speaker 5: he got rid of the investigation.
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  Speaker 3: And that to me is why he owns her now.
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  Speaker 5: She she did his bidding or she's doing his bidding
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  Speaker 5: because he helped her.
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  Speaker 3: Get out of that. Because of that, that she's loyal
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  Speaker 3: to him. I know.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think that she was in a situation
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  Speaker 5: where he made it go away for her, and I
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  Speaker 5: think that's part of the reason why she supports him
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  Speaker 5: 96% of the time. Because her support is not helping Mainers,
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  Speaker 5: that's for damn sure.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to go to some main voters
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  Speaker 2: who we actually want to hear from. You've been talking
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  Speaker 2: to a lot of them. Doris Holland, hello.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for being here. I should note, you're a
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  Speaker 2: retired school bus driver.
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  Speaker 3: I am. Well, go ahead, Doris. We'd love to have
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  Speaker 3: your question.
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  Speaker 6: I've been retired from being a school bus driver for
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  Speaker 6: 22 years. But my greatest joy was raising my family.
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  Speaker 6: I have four boys and a girl. I have a daughter.
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  Speaker 3: I have a granddaughter.
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  Speaker 6: And I have a great-granddaughter. And it really, really, I
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  Speaker 6: wanted to say concerns me, but.
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  Speaker 2: It gets a laugh in this state when you say
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  Speaker 2: concerns me.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell people, yes.
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  Speaker 6: It really bothers me to think because I was raised
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  Speaker 6: before the borough era. I know the damage that was
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  Speaker 6: done to families. I know people that died because someone
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  Speaker 6: made a mistake. I mean, if a girl makes a mistake,
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  Speaker 6: does she deserve the rest of her life? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: it just was impossible. They were going into alleys to
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  Speaker 6: get abortions. They were trying to do it themselves. And
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  Speaker 6: I pray that this will change. I pray that people
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  Speaker 6: will finally look at people. and think, you know, this.
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  Speaker 3: Is a life, the life that they lost.
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  Speaker 6: We lost hundreds of thousands of girls back then for
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  Speaker 6: a small mistake.
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  Speaker 3: Well, a mistake.
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  Speaker 2: And you have somebody sitting here who could be sitting
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate who has been a defender for a
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  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 1: What would you like to know from him?
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  Speaker 6: Well, one of the things I'd like to know is
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  Speaker 6: simply that if this comes up and if people decide
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  Speaker 6: that Roe should come back, would you fight for it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, I've been fighting for
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  Speaker 3: that for decades.
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  Speaker 5: You know, more than a decade now, I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: think I'm very proud that we have some of the
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  Speaker 5: most progressive reproductive rights bills in the country. We made
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  Speaker 5: sure that low-income women had access under main care, and
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  Speaker 5: I will. I mean, I can promise you that I'm
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  Speaker 5: not going to turn my back on that, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: not going to put another Supreme Court justice on like
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  Speaker 5: Brett Kavanaugh. I'll make damn sure that that's a question
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  Speaker 5: that I'll ask that Senator Collins seems to have given
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  Speaker 5: up on.
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  Speaker 2: You can certainly ask that question. And it's so important
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  Speaker 2: to hear from people like Doris. People think it's only
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  Speaker 2: people who are of reproductive age who care about this issue.
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  Speaker 2: But so many people, they care about it for their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, everyone.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Our next question is from Devin Campbell, a ground fisherman.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Devin.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: My question, Troy, is, you know, in the last two years,
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  Speaker 7: you know, we've faced a lot of setbacks with, you know,
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  Speaker 7: diesel price and that kind of stuff. But we've also
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  Speaker 7: made some gains in the fishing industry. with the fisheries
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  Speaker 7: agency and the USDA Office of Seafood, which we've been
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  Speaker 7: asking for for 30 years.
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  Speaker 3: What will you do to build on that when you're
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  Speaker 3: in the Senate?
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  Speaker 5: I think this whole thing with the fishing industry in Maine,
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  Speaker 5: we need resources. We need resources in there to get
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  Speaker 5: the data to make sure that we can make arguments.
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  Speaker 3: That support the fishing industry.
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  Speaker 5: I think getting more resources into the agency to get
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  Speaker 5: that is important.
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  Speaker 3: I also want to make sure that you brought it up,
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  Speaker 3: but You.
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  Speaker 5: Know, fuel prices, I know boats like yours, how much
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  Speaker 5: diesel that uses. You know, in the logging industry that
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  Speaker 5: I come from, I mean, people are going to start
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  Speaker 5: losing their business. I mean, this won't continue much longer,
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  Speaker 5: and they'll lose their homes because.
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  Speaker 3: They're tied into this. You know, we've got to get
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  Speaker 3: out of Iran.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to get fuel prices back down.
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  Speaker 3: But I think to answer your question, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, more resources so we get the real data that
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  Speaker 5: we can make the arguments and find out how we.
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  Speaker 3: Can make the fishing industry even better. Hey, it's Rachel.
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