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Checked by FactCheck.org1 Feb 2022United States Elections

Susan Collins, U.S. Senator

“President Biden “helped politicize the entire nomination process” by promising as a candidate in 2020 to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Ronald Reagan's promise to appoint a woman “isn't exactly the same.”

FactCheck.org rated this: We Review The Facts

FactCheck.org says: Ronald Reagan pledged at a 1980 campaign event that a woman would fill "one of the first" of his Supreme Court vacancies, saying it’s “time for a woman to sit among our highest jurists.”

Checked by PolitiFact14 Aug 2020United States Elections

Senate Majority PAC, Political action committee supporting Democrats

“Says Susan Collins "voted against accountability for opioid makers” and denied taking campaign money from a family who made its wealth selling OxyContin.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: Collins voted against one accountability measure, but for others. She received one campaign donation, of $2,300 in 2007, from one of the Sackler family members.