Too Dumb to Check: Did Maine Dems Anoint an Ineligible Jackson to Replace Platner?
Too Dumb to Check: Did Maine Dems Anoint an Ineligible Jackson to Replace Platner? Ed Morrissey 1:50 PM | July 27, 2026 AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty You'd think a party with as much experience at trashing its own primaries to have elites pick its nominees would do better at checking the relevant statutes.
- ▪Too Dumb to Check: Did Maine Dems Anoint an Ineligible Jackson to Replace Platner?
- ▪Ed Morrissey 1:50 PM | July 27, 2026 AP Photo/Robert F.
- ▪Bukaty You'd think a party with as much experience at trashing its own primaries to have elites pick its nominees would do better at checking the relevant statutes.
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- ▪ Maine Dems Replace Platner — The Dispatch
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Too Dumb to Check: Did Maine Dems Anoint an Ineligible Jackson to Replace Platner? Ed Morrissey 1:50 PM | July 27, 2026 AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty You'd think a party with as much experience at trashing its own primaries to have elites pick its nominees would do better at checking the relevant statutes. At least Kamala Harris qualified for the 2024 ballot. Legally, anyway. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); As expected, the 600 functionaries selected by the Democrat Party in Maine chose Troy Jackson as its anointed replacement for Graham Platner, who won the primary with 70% of the vote a month earlier.
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