Susan Collins Targeted With Blood-Red Office Vandalism

Susan Collins’ Biddeford, Maine, office was vandalized with red paint and the words "blood on your hands" on Election Day, hours before polls were set to close in her race for a sixth Senate term.

Staff members found the sidewalk coated in red and the entrance marked with paint. The timing put the attack alongside a tight contest: Collins, a longtime Republican incumbent, was running against Democratic nominee Troy Jackson in a race the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rated a toss-up. The incident therefore landed not only at a campaign office, but in the final hours of a closely watched Senate fight.

Katie Brown, Collins’ chief of staff, described the vandalism as part of a series and said it was the second intimidation attempt at the Biddeford location. She called the conduct disturbing, while emphasizing that the staff was "undeterred and on the job."

Biddeford police said they received the criminal-mischief report at 22:59 on November 2, 2026, for the office at 160 Main Street. The department said investigators were handling the case. Collins’ office had not immediately responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

The latest incident followed other damage aimed at Collins during the fall. In September, eggs were thrown at her Bangor home. About a week later, red paint spelling "Trump Whore" appeared on the doors of her office. Those earlier episodes help explain why Collins’ staff described the new vandalism as another event in a series.

The race itself carried unusual pressure for Collins. She has served in the Senate since 1997 and was, heading into election night 2026, the only Republican senator representing a state that Harris carried in 2024. Jackson, a former leader of Maine’s state Senate, became the Democratic nominee in July after Graham Platner withdrew from the race amid sexual assault allegations.

Another campaign dispute surfaced on Oct. 29. Kelly Kusnirak, a Maine voter who supports Collins, said she thought she was taking part in an advertisement backing Collins. She later alleged that the ad instead featured her in support of Jackson. That allegation created another campaign controversy around a race already marked by vandalism and competing political messages.

Why It Matters

The vandalism matters because it turns a high-pressure political dispute into a direct threat to the people doing ordinary campaign and Senate office work. Red paint and a message invoking blood are highly visible at a working office, affecting staff, visitors, and voters who use that space. The repeated targeting described by Collins’ office also raises a question larger than a single election-day incident: where does angry political expression end and intimidation begin? Police are investigating, so the public still lacks an answer about who carried out the damage or what motivated the person or people involved.

The political stakes are also unusually concentrated. Collins’ position as a Republican senator from a state that supported Harris in the presidential election makes her race a test of how a vulnerable incumbent can withstand pressure from both opponents and hostile activism. Jackson’s changed path to the nomination and the separate advertising dispute add to an atmosphere in which trust is already contested. That does not establish that the campaign allegations and vandalism are connected. It does show why the incident can shape perceptions beyond the immediate damage: it touches public safety, campaign conduct, and whether voters can judge the candidates without intimidation or confusion.

For Collins’ staff, the immediate response was to keep working. Brown said employees were undeterred, and police continued investigating the damage as the final hours of the Senate race unfolded.

Source: The Liberty Daily