Bush supports Collins with first distinction of the 2020 cycle

Former President George W. Bush supported Sen. Susan CollinsSusan Margaret Collins Explains Postal Service Disaster More Than Dozens of Fed Alumni Call on First Chamber to Reject First Chamber Super PAC by First Chamber of Deputies Collins over Postal Service Misery in New Digital advertisement (R-Maine) for re-election on Friday, giving a boost to one of the GOP’s most vulnerable senators in 2020.

‘She’s honest, period. She is immediate, period, “Bush told The Associated Press after having lunch with Collins at his vacation home in Maine.

“She brings dignity to a world that has become really ugly,” Bush admitted.

The distinction is Bush’s first of the cycle. He has since largely moved away from campaign politics President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive takeaways from the Democratic National Convention What we will remember from the 2020 Biden Convention Chris Wallace labels Biden’s acceptance speech ‘extremely effective’ MAY was elected in 2016.

A Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this month found Democrat Sara Gideon Collins leads with 4 points, 47 percent to 43 percent.

The political report of the non-partisan cook Cook describes the race as a ‘toss-up’.

Money has gone into the race, with Gideon, the Speaker of the Maine State House, drawing a staggering $ 23 million so far this cycle, compared to $ 16.3 million for Collins.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonFive Democratic National Convention takeaways What we will remember from the 2020 Biden Convention Overnight Energy: Michigan Agrees with 0M Flint Arrangement | Sierra Club beats DNC over declining fossil fuel subsidies language MORE Maine finished with less than 3 points in 2016. The Trump campaign has ripped the state as one of three field goals it believes it can flip in 2020.

Collins has criticized Trump at times, and she voted against his attempt to recall ObamaCare. Democrats, however, have cast her as a rubber stamp on Trump’s agenda, and some of the president’s Republican critics say she has not done enough to stand up for him.