Where Maine’s Us Senate Candidates Stand On Foreign Policy In A Inwardly Focused Race

With coronavirus and other domestic challenges occupying the headlines, foreign policy has largely been sidelined in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, in stark contrast to previous elections.U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ first re-election campaign in 2002 was dominated by debate over the war in Iraq, which the Republican supported while joining wide majorities in both houses of Congress in a foreign policy move that has dominated the landscape for nearly a generation. The fourth-term incumbent, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has a long and developed record on the issue.