Candidates running for the Senate in Michigan, Georgia and Maine debate tonight as they enter the final weeks of campaigning ahead of the November elections.
\n\nIn the first question in tonight's debate, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was asked about an alleged "pay-to-play" scheme that she was involved in, according to a report from ProPublica.
\n\nCollins again denied wrongdoing tonight, saying, "These allegations are absolutely false, and they've been proven false."
\n\n"The University of Maine came to me with a proposal for advanced research with a company called Navatek. We did not know at the time, nor did the university, that the head of Navatek, a long-established research company, was a crook," Collins said. "He's in jail today, where he belongs."
\n\nCollins said that the former CEO of Navatek, Martin Kao, alleged that he "couldn't get a meeting with me and the University of Maine unless he contributed funds."
\n\n"That is provably false. We have a picture of us meeting. The submission by the University of Maine was made a year and a half before there were any contributions from this crook, and of course we gave away the money, and today he's in jail," Collins said.
\n\nDemocrat Troy Jackson argued…
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