‘It Is Never Enough’: Susan Collins Couldn’t Outrun Trump
Topics: Maine Senate Race
2 outlets (NYT and The Guardian US) are covering this story.
How outlets are covering this: 2 outlets ran their own headlines on this story. Both headlines use “Collins”, “Susan”. Distinct wording: NYT uses “Couldn't” and “Outrun”; The Guardian US uses “three-decade” and “unpopularity”. (Computed from the headlines below.)
- NYT reports: “The Maine Republican survived tough cycles in the past even as the political ground shifted beneath her. But the anti-Trump fever in her state doomed her this time.”
- The Guardian US reports: “Troy Jackson, in just 101 days, bested the Republican, preventing her sixth Senate term: ‘You can’t eat road salt’Send us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats’ ‘blue wave’Trac…”
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- NYT: ‘It Is Never Enough’: Susan Collins Couldn’t Outrun Trump
- The Guardian US: What the downfall of near three-decade senator Susan Collins says about Republican unpopularity
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