#1 is the best, #50 is the worst
After losing her seat, Susan Collins blamed a 'Trump tsunami' and asked what bigger break with Trump there could be than voting to convict him. That vote fell 10 short of the 67 needed. On the votes that could have stopped him, the record looks very different.
A group called Keeping America's Edge — named after an April 2025 hearing Collins chaired — paid about $850,000 to lobby on NIH funding, a budget Collins's committee writes. Scott Reed, who runs the super PAC re-electing her, got $250,000 of it. Nobody disclosed who was paying.
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Harris won Maine with 52.4% of the vote to 45.5%, a margin of 6.9 points, with 74.6% of eligible voters turning out. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
1 of 4 — 25%. In the U.S. House, Maine has 0 Republicans and 2 Democrats; in the Senate, 1 Republican and 1 Democrat. Angus King is an independent, and is counted with the Democrats he caucuses with. (Source: Current members of Congress from Maine, on Wikipedia.)
Maine ranks #11 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
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We grade Republican incumbents running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost Maine. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.
