Indivisible Bangor
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Our mission is to promote social justice and democracy, including equal protection under the law and equal access to our democratic institutions.
Our mission is to promote social justice and democracy, including equal protection under the law and equal access to our democratic institutions.
![The 73-year-old senator in May revealed occasional trembling in her voice, head and hands are
symptoms of a benign essential tremor, a neurological condition she’s lived with for decades. She said
it has no ill effect on her ability to do her job.
Jackson and the Maine Democratic Party have not yet made Collins’ age or health an explicit issue. But
they’ve targeted her nearly 30 years in Washington as a knock against her credibility because she
pledged in 1996 to serve only two terms.
Collins’ interview came as the campaign heats up and as generational divides have risen in Democratic
primaries nationwide — including Graham Platner’s initial race against 78-year-old Gov. Janet Mills.
Jackson, 58, replaced Platner on the ballot after an ex-girlfriend’s rape allegation ended his campaign.
In April, Collins’ team walked back on a comment she made to a News Center Maine reporter
suggesting she would retire after a sixth term, at which point she would be nearly 80. A spokesperson
for Collins’ campaign at the time called it an “offhand comment to a reporter, not a formal declaration.”
Collins told Politico this week that age is an issue “totally due to the concealment of [former President]
Joe Biden’s health problems.”
She also claimed the press didn’t question independent U.S. Sen. Angus King about his run for re-
election at 80. The issue made some headlines during King’s low-key 2024 campaign, with some](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4o2vaalki2qgmekvrzmguix/bafkreige65g5svapgaci42zv5pj44g7hyerxva5xdutznwgtbniyek75bu)
