Why Susan Collins Has Lasted So Long

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Oct 1, 202647:09News & Politics

The New Yorker staff writer Emma Green joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Senate race in Maine, where the Republican Susan Collins, who has served in the Senate for nearly thirty years, is facing off against the former s...

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