Senator Manchin has just announced that Republican Senator Collins would be re-elected to Maine.

Democrat Senator Joe Manchin made the unusual decision to approve Republican Senator Susan Collins in his run expected for his fifth term in Maine next year. The West Virginia centrist senator has managed to keep his seat on the last round despite the fact that the GOP is heavily targeting him as a potential reversal after Trump carried the right-wing state. Collins faces the opposite situation; She is fighting to keep her seat in a state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 and which has recently switched to the left. In many ways, these two personalities are like-minded custodians in the Senate, where they often defy their own party and still manage to stand in states that seem to have moved in a different direction.

Manchin's approval has been approved by C-SPAN. Newsmakers talk show on Thursday and did not stop at moral support. "I was going to campaign for Susan Collins. If she wanted to, I would campaign for Susan Collins. For America, losing someone like Susan Collins would be an absolute shame. I feel it so much, "said Manchin. "Do you think my birthday will be happy? No."

Ahem, no, they're not going Joe. Senator Collins' seat is seen as an imperative for Democrats seeking to lock the Senate while being able to dispel the Democratic enthusiasm generated by Trump's presence in the White House. Collins' support for rights such as the right to abortion and the Affordable Care Act had earned him a friendly face for Democrats seeking common ground. Collins votes to confirm that Brett Kavanaugh has however aroused outrage, surpassing all previous efforts of bipartisanship, and has affixed the poster of the democratic base to his seat.

A potentially formidable Democrat candidate failed to materialize on Thursday after former President Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice announced that she would not show up at Collins, despite the interest shown in last autumn. Rice, who has deep roots in the state, cited family reasons as a deciding factor to stay out of the race.