{"id":4335,"date":"2026-06-02T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/boxer-collins-voting-96-with-trump-more-offensive-than-graham\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:06:05","slug":"boxer-collins-voting-96-with-trump-more-offensive-than-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/boxer-collins-voting-96-with-trump-more-offensive-than-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer: Collins Voting 96% with Trump More Offensive than Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Ana Cabrera Reports&#8221; on Monday, <strong>Boxer<\/strong>, who represented California in the Senate, addressed the campaign of <strong>Graham Platner<\/strong>, the Democratic challenger seeking to unseat Collins in Maine&#8217;s Senate race, according to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The former senator acknowledged that Platner&#8217;s controversies were troubling and expressed sympathy for his wife regarding the personal matters that have surfaced during the campaign. She characterized the situation as both extremely offensive and ugly.<\/p>\n<p>However, Boxer pivoted to what she described as a broader question for Maine voters about what constitutes a more serious offense in the current political moment. She raised the issue of Collins&#8217; voting record, noting that despite personally liking the Maine Republican, she had always been politically disappointed with her positions.<\/p>\n<p>Boxer emphasized that Collins has voted alongside President Trump 96 percent of the time, framing this alignment as potentially more offensive to Maine voters than Platner&#8217;s personal controversies. She argued that major policy issues including healthcare, affordability, the economy, jobs, and threats to democracy hang in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>The California Democrat characterized the choice facing Maine voters as a difficult one, contrasting what she termed the personal ugly side of the Democratic candidate against Collins&#8217; near-universal alignment with the Trump administration&#8217;s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Boxer maintained that Democrats still have a chance in the Maine Senate race, suggesting voters will ultimately decide which issue carries greater weight when they cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Maine has traditionally been viewed as a blue-leaning state, though Collins has held her Senate seat for multiple terms despite the state&#8217;s overall Democratic tilt in recent presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer said Maine voters should weigh Democratic challenger Graham Platner&#8217;s personal controversies against Republican Susan Collins&#8217; 96 percent voting alignment with Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":4334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[4690,790,196,2495,4692,4691,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barbara-boxer","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-trump","tag-maine","tag-senate-race","tag-susan-collins","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}