ME-SEN: Poll shows Collins displaces McConnell as most unpopular senator

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has come under mounting pressure as President Trump’s impeachment trial starts, is now the Senate’s most unpopular member, displacing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the rankings, according to a new tracking poll.

A quarterly Morning Consult tracking poll finds that Collins’s net approval rating has dropped 10 points in Maine since the end of September, a sign of the intense fire she has taken from critics since the House launched its impeachment inquiry.

Morning Consult reported Thursday evening in a preview of its survey findings that Collins, who is up for reelection this year, now registers a 52 percent disapproval. Her approval rating stood at 42 percent.

McConnell, the second least popular senator, registered a disapproval rating of 50 percent and an approval rating of 37 percent among the voters in his state of Kentucky.

Kevin Kelley, a spokesman for Collins’s campaign, raised concerns about the survey’s methodology.

"This is an online poll that has little credibility. We are confident that it does not reflect reality, and Senator Collins remains focused on the job that Mainers elected her to do," Kelley said.

The tracking poll surveys 5,000 registered voters across the United States on a daily basis and compiled data from 500,000 interviews in the last three months of 2019. Morning Consult says the margins of error vary by state and party. You can see the margin of error for each senator here.



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