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Jackson then unsuccessfully ran to be the Democratic nominee for governor earlier this year with Platner’s backing, but was unsuccessful.Share
- ▪Jackson then unsuccessfully ran to be the Democratic nominee for governor earlier this year with Platner’s backing, but was unsuccessful.Share
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05.47 EDTMaine Democrats rally around Troy Jackson to replace Graham Platner in crucial Senate raceTroy Jackson, a former state legislator, moved into a strong position to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic candidate in the crucial Maine Senate race after several of his opponents dropped out over the weekend.Maine’s secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, withdrew yesterday morning, saying Democrats didn’t have “a day to waste in unifying” around the goal of defeating the state’s longtime Republican Senator Susan Collins in the November midterm elections.Nirav Shah, former director of Maine’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also dropped out – and endorsed Jackson, a fifth-generation logger from the northern part of the state, in the evening.He was shortly followed by Dan…
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