Democrat Troy Jackson has defeated longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins in Maine , NBC News projects, padding the Senate majority his party won in the midterm elections.

Collins was a top target as the only Republican representing a state Donald Trump lost two years ago, even though she has won re-election in Democratic-leaning Maine for decades.

Jackson and his allies worked to tie Collins to Trump, who has never won Maine, amid his sinking approval ratings. And Jackson had only a few months to make his case, having become the Democratic nominee in late July after Graham Platner’s exit from the race amid a sexual assault allegation, which he denied.

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“Sen. Collins votes with Trump 96% of the time. The billionaire class is who she’s been fighting for,” Jackson said at one of their debates.…