Republican Senator Faces New Humiliation in Must-Win Seat

Republican Sen. Susan Collins faces fresh political pressure in Maine, where the outlet describes her re-election campaign as struggling in a must-win seat. After Collins tapped county commissioner Wayne Erkkinen, 81, as town chair in Greenville in June, attention turned to Erkkinen’s prior identification by the Anti-Defamation League as an Oath Keepers member. The far-right group is described as having played a major role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and some members were later convicted of seditious conspiracy. The article says leaked membership records included Erkkinen. It adds he told “The Swamp” he joined in 2010 believing it related to law enforcement and quit years before Jan. 6 to avoid violence, while Democrats use the situation to argue Collins is backed by Trump’s most extreme supporters.