The 2020 election was a rejection of the "far-left" policies of people like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told "The Story" in an exclusive interview Monday.
Collins, who defeated Democratic Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon to secure a fifth term in the upper chamber of Congress, also told host Martha MacCallum that "the polling industry needs to take a hard look at what it does." In one of the more spectacular polling misses of this cycle, Collins defeated Gideon by 8.8 percentage points, despite trailing in the RealClearPolitics polling average. "I noticed that all of these polls had an online component which I believe makes them less reliable," said Collins, who also suggested that pollsters had difficulty reaching.