Why 🦄 UsSenateElections picked: Former president Barack Obama endorsed Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson, saying he is “proud to be on board” the Democrats’ campaign to oust Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Collins is running for her sixth term, and polls show the race is tight.

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This report covers Barack Obama's endorsement of Troy Jackson in the competitive Maine US Senate race against incumbent Susan Collins, including context on the tight polling.

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Why 🦄 UsSenateElections picked: Former president Barack Obama endorsed Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson, saying he is “proud to be on board” the Democrats’ campaign to oust Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Collins is running for her sixth term, and polls show the race is tight.

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Democrat Troy Jackson has a slight edge over Republican Sen. Susan Collins with less than a month before Election Day in the Senate battleground Maine, a Washington Post-Schar School poll finds.

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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) and his Republican challenger, Rep. Mike Collins, exchanged attacks on the debate stage over inflation, health care and Collins’s associations with people who have expressed white nationalist views.