<p>‘It’s the disregard for the rule of law. It just seems like they’re thumbing their nose at it’</p><p>In the battleground state of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/maine">Maine</a>, Todd Cox, 63, has supported the state’s incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins not once, but twice, in previous elections. Not this time.</p><p>On Tuesday, Cox, a technology professional, cast his vote for Collins’ Democratic challenger Troy Jackson – driven not by pressing local issues, but broader concern “for the direction the country is going in”, he said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/03/republican-voters-maine-susan-collins-trump">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>‘It’s the disregard for the rule of law. It just seems like they’re thumbing their nose at it’</p><p>In the battleground state of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/maine">Maine</a>, Todd Cox, 63, has supported the state’s incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins not once, but twice, in previous elections. Not this time.</p><p>On Tuesday, Cox, a technology professional, cast his vote for Collins’ Democratic challenger Troy Jackson – driven not by pressing local issues, but broader concern “for the direction the country is going in”, he said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/03/republican-voters-maine-susan-collins-trump">Continue reading...</a>