How outlets cover Susan M. Collins R · ME · SEN · Jun 22 – Jun 25, 2026
Susan Collins Defends Her Kavanaugh Vote and Roe Remarks
Collins defended her Kavanaugh vote and said he was not pivotal in the decision overturning Roe. Coverage differs on whether to emphasize the disputed vote count or the campaign stakes around abortion rights.
Lead article · Portland Press Herald · LEFTHow Maine Democrats plan to make abortion an issue for Susan CollinsSusan Collins defended her 2018 vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh and said he was not pivotal to the decision overturning Roe. She described the ruling as 6-3, although the decision was 5-4.
Left-leaning outlets frame her defense as a campaign liability over abortion rights and emphasize criticism of her account of the Roe ruling. Center outlets focus on Collins defending her record under questioning, with one article emphasizing the interview and another examining the vote-count discrepancy.
Outlets by lean
7 RATEDRight-leaning readers are seeing less of this. No right-leaning outlet has covered this, while 5 left-leaning outlets have.
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Left-leaning outlets tie Collins’s Kavanaugh vote and defense of it to abortion-rights criticism and vulnerability in her reelection campaign.
How it looks for Collins, by side
7 ARTICLESLeft: 0 good, 3 bad, 2 mixed, 0 informational. Center: 0 good, 1 bad, 1 mixed, 0 informational. Right: 0 good, 0 bad, 0 mixed, 0 informational.
When each side covered it
JUN 22 – 25Articles per day by side. JUN 22: Left 1, Center 2, Right 0. JUN 23: Left 1, Center 0, Right 0. JUN 24: Left 2, Center 0, Right 0. JUN 25: Left 1, Center 0, Right 0.
No right-leaning outlet has covered this yet. We’ll alert you when one does.No right-leaning outlet has covered this yet. We’ll alert you when one does, and when any new outlet covers it.