The Biddeford, Maine, office of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was vandalized late Monday night — hours before polls opened on Election Day — with red paint dumped in front of the building and the words "BLOOD on her HANDS" scrawled in crimson on the sidewalk, according to Collins' chief of staff and a police report.
Biddeford police said they received a call reporting the vandalism outside Collins' office at 160 Main St. shortly before 11 p.m. Monday, Maine's Total Coverage reported. Photos provided by the Collins campaign show the message in paint on the sidewalk in front of the office door, a pool of red paint nearby, and red paint splattered on the office's front doors.
It was the second such incident at the Biddeford location in a month. In late September, the vulgar epithet "Trump whore" was spray-painted in red on the office door. Collins later said in a radio interview that her home in Bangor had been egged about a week before that September incident, according to Maine's Total Coverage.
"This is another incident in a series and the second attempt at our Biddeford office to intimidate the Senator and her staff," Collins' chief of staff, Katie Brown, told Fox News' Alexis McAdams. "These tactics are disturbing, but not effective. Our staff is undeterred and on the job."
Collins herself addressed the vandalism in comments to CBS News' Jerickaduncan. "This is so unacceptable and it's unfair to my caseworkers who are working there," she said. "Fortunately, they refuse to be intimidated by this and the office is" — the post, shared by @CBSNews on X, appears to cut off there.
Fox News reported that days after the September vandalism, protesters barged through the office's front door chanting "vote her out."
Collins is seeking a sixth term in the U.S. Senate, a mark no Maine senator has ever reached. She faces former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, who was chosen as the Democratic nominee at a special convention on July 25 — less than three weeks after the primary winner, Graham Platner, dropped out following allegations of sexual assault.
Jackson condemned Monday's vandalism in a statement shared with Fox News Digital. "There's no place for this in Maine. Vandalism and intimidation are wrong, full stop. Senator Collins and her staff should be able to do their jobs without anyone defacing their office, and I condemn whoever did this," Jackson said.
The vandalism was not isolated to Collins' office on election eve. The Mirror US reported that ballot machines in Westchester County, New York, failed during a vital House race, feeding a morning of chaos at polling places.
Viral posts amplified the scene at Collins' office. @MarioNawfal wrote on X that "'Blood on her hands' was spraypainted outside the front door, along with gallons of bright red paint," and noted the office is near the site of an ICE officer-involved incident — a detail Fox News and Maine's Total Coverage did not report. The office sits in a tight race that could help determine which party controls the Senate, and the message was left where voters would see it as they walked to the polls.
Our Take
This is what the Left does when it cannot win an argument in the daylight. Red paint in the dead of night, before a single vote is cast, on the office where a 73-year-old senator's caseworkers help Maine veterans and Social Security recipients cut through federal red tape. The people who scrubbed that paint off the sidewalk Tuesday morning never voted on a tariff or a border bill. They answer the phone when a widow's VA check goes missing.
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Give Troy Jackson credit where it is due. He called it wrong, plainly, and did not hide behind a press aide's hedging. That is how a candidate condemns violence — not with a lecture about rhetoric aimed at the other side's supporters.
But calling it wrong is not the same as stopping it. Whoever dumped that paint knew exactly where the cameras would point and exactly when. The question for Maine voters and for the Biddeford police is simple: when the same office gets hit a third time, who gets held accountable — and will the people cheering this on be named, or will they get to hide behind the word "protest"?
Collins' staff says they are undeterred and on the job. Good. The rest of us should be just as undeterred at the ballot box — because the answer to a bucket of red paint is not a quieter campaign. It is a louder, bigger vote.
