Following her pivotal vote in favor of appointing Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Sen. Susan Collins had the best fundraising quarter of her career, The Hill reported on Sunday.
The Republican from Maine raised $1.8 million in the final quarter of last year, according to documents filed to the Federal Election Commission. Collins’s previous high for donations was $1.2 million in the second quarter of 2007.
The senator received only $140,000 in fundraising in the quarter before her vote for Kavanaugh in October.
“We made an effort to have a strong quarter because we wanted to send the message that Senator Collins will be prepared to run a vigorous campaign in 2020,” Amy Abbott, deputy treasurer of Collins’s campaign committee, told the Bangor Daily News.
The surge in fundraising was mostly due to out-of-state donations, the Bangor Daily News reported.
Of the almost $900,000 Collins received from individual donors contributing more than $200, just $19,000 came from those with addresses in Maine.
Abbot explained the large discrepancy, saying “We focused our fundraising efforts nationally, which we typically do until the election year, which is why there were relatively fewer donations from Maine.”
Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford, was confirmed 50 to 48, with Collins and West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin casting the key votes, according to The Hill.
Following Collins's vote in favor of Kavanaugh, there were many calls by opposition figures for a Democrat to challenge her in the 2020 election.
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