# A Hart Research poll commissioned by Senate Majority PAC and reported by Bangor Daily News showed Troy Jackson at 49% and Susan Collins at 45%, with a plus-or-minus 3.5-point margin of error.

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## Receipts
- 2026-08-07T02:01:30.599Z: Susan Collins Faces Conservative Backlash in Tight Maine Senate Race
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- 2026-08-07T02:13:30.000Z: The retained high-engagement post supplies a concrete example of anti-Collins reaction tied directly to the Jackson-Collins poll.
- 2026-08-07T02:13:30.000Z: Bangor Daily News published the directly fetched August 6 report on the Hart Research poll and its sponsor.
- 2026-08-07T02:13:30.000Z: A Hart Research poll commissioned by Senate Majority PAC and reported by Bangor Daily News showed Troy Jackson at 49% and Susan Collins at 45%, with a plus-or-minus 3.5-point margin of error.
- 2026-08-07T02:13:30.000Z: In a reply to the Jackson-Collins poll post, Gina Milan criticized Collins and said she would root for Jackson in that matchup.
- 2026-08-07T02:13:30.000Z: Directly fetched X post retains the anti-Collins wording and the quoted poll figures and methodology metadata.
- 2026-08-07T02:13:30.000Z: Directly fetched local report provides the poll sponsor, pollster, likely-voter sample, approval figures, head-to-head result, and Collins campaign context.
- 2026-08-07T02:13:30.000Z: Maine Democratic delegates choose Troy Jackson as new nominee to face US Sen. Susan Collins
- 2026-08-07T02:13:30.000Z: Collins campaign spokesman Shawn Roderick responded that public polls also showed Collins losing in 2020 before her nine-point win and criticized prior Senate Majority PAC spending.
- 2026-08-07T02:13:30.000Z: The poll and a documented criticism post support a competitive-race and backlash framing, but the sponsored survey is not an election result and one post does not measure the breadth of conservative opinion.
- 2026-08-08T15:34:45.000Z: reuters.com
- 2026-08-08T15:34:45.000Z: Reuters reports Maine Democrats nominated Troy Jackson after Platner's exit, framing the general-election matchup against incumbent Susan Collins; this is race structure evidence, not new conservative-backlash polling.
- 2026-08-08T15:34:45.000Z: Registered race-structure coverage is refreshed; additional registered polling beyond Hart/BDN, a direct Collins response to conservative criticism, and election results remain open.