Susan Collins

U.S. senator, R-Maine. 3 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2020 to 2022. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

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 PolitiFact25 Sep 2020United States Crime and security

Susan Collins, U.S. senator, R-Maine

“Says Sara Gideon "voted to defund" the Freeport police "and gave the money to a nonprofit she helped run.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Gideon voted to consolidate police dispatch services with a neighboring community, saving the town money. Gideon didn’t give town funds to the nonprofit for which she served as a board member.

Checked by PolitiFact15 Aug 2020United States Politics and government

Susan Collins, U.S. senator, R-Maine

“Says Sara Gideon’s husband’s law firm “took up to $2 million” from the same federal program she “falsely” attacked Susan Collins over.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: The law firm that employs Gideon’s husband received a Paycheck Protection Program loan of between $1 million and $2 million. Gideon attacked Collins over the PPP; some of her points were accurate.