# O declínio da quase trilhada senadora Susan Collins diz muito sobre a falta de popularidade republicana

- Seção: Estados Unidos
- Fonte: The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/04/susan-collins-senate-defeat-troy-jackson)
- Publicado em: 2026-11-04T20:00:42.000Z
- URL: https://www.itatiba1.com.br/noticia/1514278-o-declinio-da-quase-trilhada-senadora-susan-collins-diz-muito-sobre-a-falta-de
- Tradução automática do original em "en": "What the downfall of near three-decade senator Susan Collins says about Republican unpopularity"

> Troy Jackson, em apenas 101 dias, superou a República e impediu seu sexto mandato no Senado: 'Você não pode comer sal de estrada

Troy Jackson, in just 101 days, bested the Republican, preventing her sixth Senate term: ‘You can’t eat road salt’

The political demise of Susan Collins – a fixture of Maine and Washington politics for three decades – recalls the famous line in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises about how one of the novel’s characters experienced bankruptcy: gradually, then suddenly.

In the run up to Tuesday’s stunning Democrat “blue wave” election triumph, it seemed obvious that Collins’ 30-year tenure as Maine’s Republican senator was vulnerable to the challenge of Troy Jackson, the Democrats’ explicitly working-class candidate as voters prepared to unleash pent-up anger with Donald Trump ’s presidency.

Reportagem completa: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/04/susan-collins-senate-defeat-troy-jackson

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