A Higher Collins

Maine GOP senator and professional concern troll Susan Collins has apparently drawn a serious challenger for 2020, the state's Democratic House Speaker, Sara Gideon.

Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, a Democrat, is expected to formally announce in the coming weeks that she’s running for Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ seat in 2020, five Democratic sources confirmed to HuffPost.

She will likely launch her campaign shortly after the close of the state’s legislative session on June 19, the three Democratic sources in Maine and two national Democratic strategists said.

Defeating Collins, the Maine moderate who infuriated liberals with her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, is key to Democratic hopes of winning back control of the Senate in 2020. Gideon is a top-tier recruit for the race and is expected to have at least the tacit backing of establishment groups like the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and EMILY’s List.

At the same time, the Senate GOP is marshaling its resources to defend Collins, who has long outperformed other Republicans on the ballot in Maine.

Gideon hinted last October that she would toss her hat in the ring following Collins’ controversial vote for Kavanaugh.

“Maine deserves a champion in the US Senate,” Gideon wrote in a Facebook post at the time. “After November I will be seriously considering how I can elevate the voices of people who deserve and demand to be heard and represented in Washington, DC.”

Gideon did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

This is arguably the most important Senate race in 2020 outside of Mitch McConnell himself, for the Dems to have any hope whatsoever of getting control of the Senate back, they have to take Susan Collins out.   Here's hoping Gideon can do the job.  Collins has been one of Trump's most awful enablers, grousing about Trump causing her concerns but of course her Trump score is 71%, including approving almost all of Trump's cabinet selections.

Collins, like all GOP Trump enablers, need to go.