“You nominate and run the most conservative candidate who can win the election.” -Ronald Reagan
In this case, that’s Collins.
Or to put it another way; I’d rather have someone in the Senate who will vote for my side of the issues 2/3 of the time than someone who will vote with the other team 90% of the time.
We need to stop ceding whole sections of the country to the other side and start running electable candidates in places like New England, New York and California. That means we have to stop expecting every Republican to be hard right. It’s starting to look like we dodged a bullet in the Senate this year. That isn’t going to last unless we start competing in places we have largely given up on.
understood