Susan Collins Seeks Re-Election In High-Stakes 2026 Midterm Race

Main Republican Sen. Susan Collins reaffirmed this week that her “position in the middle of American politics” is why she will run for re-election in 2026, setting up a high-stakes Senate race in the midterms.

During a 30-minute phone call with Punchbowl News in Washington, Collins, 72, said again that she plans to run for a sixth six-year term.

“I still plan to run for re-election,” she said, despite frustrations with current Senate dynamics and its increasingly irregular budgeting and appropriations process. “People who are in the middle are tending to leave. They’re tending to retire.” Continue reading…