Sen. Susan Collins' Biddeford, Maine, Office Vandalized With 'Blood on Her Hands' Message Before Election Day

Vandals poured red paint on the sidewalk outside Sen. Susan Collins' office in Biddeford, Maine, late Monday and wrote "Blood on her hands" there, the night before Election Day. It was the second time the office was targeted in about a month, according to Collins' chief of staff, Katie Brown. Local police said they received a call about the vandalism around 11 p.m. Monday, and by Tuesday morning the paint had been washed away. Brown called the incident part of a series and the second attempt at the Biddeford office to intimidate the Republican senator and her staff. She said the tactics were disturbing but not effective, and that staff were undeterred and on the job. On September 28, someone spray-painted the words "Trump whore" on the office doors. The office is near where a law enforcement officer shot and killed 26-year-old Colombian national Johan Sebastián Guerrero in an ICE officer-involved shooting in July. Days after that shooting, protesters entered the office's front door chanting "vote her out."

Right-leaning outlets Fox News and the Daily Wire both lead with the vandalism and run Brown's statement in full. Fox's headline calls the graffiti "disturbing" and stresses the timing before Election Day. Its article adds the most background, including the July ICE shooting, the protesters' entry and the September graffiti, and links to stories on Maine's Senate race. The Daily Wire adds the police call time, the cleanup, and a Maine Wire report that staffers were shaken, and it points to its midterms live coverage. NewsNation, the alternative outlet, is shorter in the material provided and quotes Brown's statement about the second attempt to intimidate the senator and staff, with a headline quoting the painted message. Left-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing, while the right-leaning and alternative outlets had. The covering outlets agree on the facts and rely on Brown as their main voice.