A local chapter of the nation’s largest federation of labor unions bashed Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Wednesday for campaigning with former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a former Democrat-turned-independent.

Maine’s local AFL-CIO President Cynthia Phinney called it “mystifying and insulting” that Collins would campaign with Manchin, citing his work as an adviser for the private equity firm Apollo Global Management, which Phinney claimed is responsible for “killing hundreds of Maine jobs.”

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