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It's not that Maine's Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is corrupt, it's just that things can be done in a certain way—the Washington way—for expediency. Besides, she needed a lot of dough to keep her seat in a tight 2020 election. After all, money is the name of the game in American politics these days—thank you very much, Supreme Court.
So it was a no-brainer that Scott Reed, the head of Collins' super PAC, went looking for willing campaign contributors.
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