Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was greeted with vocal boos and heckling at a ribbon-cutting event in Searsport, Maine, earlier this week, as attendees took issue with her stance on Gaza and her perceived complicity with President Donald Trump.
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” Multiple people can be heard yelling in a video posted to TikTok by Searsport photographer Esme Freeman, 25, who uses the handle @hikemainewithme. Others sounded alarms about Trump’s Supreme Court nominees and the cuts to healthcare in the Republicans’ recent tax bill.
“Susan Collins WTF ‘Where’s the fight?’” one person’s sign reads.
“ I don’t think that the people of Maine are very impressed with her,” Freeman, who attended the event in protest, told HuffPost. “ I think we’re pretty done with her, and just the way that she has avoided the people, it’s not shocking that this kind of reaction came out.”
Collins has long faced criticism for her stance on Trump: while she voted against his tax legislation, she has also backed a number of his nominees, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Additionally, she has faced criticism for failing to hold a town hall for years. She is one of several Republicans who have received a hostile reception from constituents in recent weeks.
