Collins won’t vote for Trump, but will write-in vote for Haley

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) plans to cast a write-in vote for former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley to become the next president and will not vote for former President Trump, her office confirmed Friday.

Collins revealed her general election plans to a CBS and Fox photojournalist based in Portland, Maine, on Friday.

Collins had previously indicated that she did not plan to vote for Trump in November, but her statement on Friday received new attention just days before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

The Maine senator supported Haley over Trump in the Republican presidential primary earlier this year. She also voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial.

And she said in late March, after Trump won the delegates needed for the GOP nomination, that she did not plan to vote for the former president.

“I don’t think this should surprise anyone,” she said at the time.

Collins declined to say how she would vote in the 2020 presidential election, when Trump and Biden faced off for the first time.

She herself was running for re-election that year.

Biden ended up winning Maine with 53 percent of the vote in 2020, but Collins was still reelected.

She is the only Senate incumbent to be re-elected in a state where her party’s presidential candidate lost in 2016 or 2020.

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