Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) plans to cast her roll-up vote for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the next presidential election and will not vote for Donald Trump, her office confirmed Friday.
Collins revealed her general election plans to Portland, Maine-based CBS and Fox photojournalists on Friday.
Collins has previously suggested she would not vote for Trump in November, but her comments on Friday, just days before the Republican National Convention begins in Milwaukee, drew new attention.
The Maine senator supported Haley over Trump in the Republican presidential primary earlier this year and voted guilty in Trump’s second impeachment trial.
And she said in late March that she had no intention of voting for the former president after Trump won the Republican nomination.
“I don’t think anybody is surprised,” she said at the time.
Collins declined to say how she would vote in the 2020 presidential election, which marks the first face-off between Trump and Biden.
She herself was up for reelection that year.
In 2020, Biden ultimately won Maine with 53 percent of the vote, but Collins still won re-election.
She is the only sitting senator to win reelection in a state where her party’s presidential candidate lost in 2016 or 2020.
