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A Republican-affiliated super PAC is having a little trouble finding Maine on a map. The Defending Main Street super PAC spent thousands of dollars on an attack ad to audiences thousands of miles away from the Maine Senate race it was targeting. The group, which describes itself as “most effective independent expenditure organization supporting the governing wing of the Republican Party,” paid for the ad to attack Troy Jackson, who’s mounting a challenge to incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. theintercept.com/2026/10/12/susan-collins-...