Maine Dems Sweat Troy Jackson Despite Dominant Victory

“Troy Jackson is a near-lock to be Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee and officially replace scandal-plagued former nominee Graham Platner on November’s ballot. But he still has to escape the shadow of Platner’s meteoric campaign and disastrous collapse,” Politico reports.

”Even as Jackson dominated the weekend’s county delegate conventions, showing organizing strength that will benefit his campaign through November, many Maine Democrats expressed frustrations with the makeshift nomination process triggered by Platner’s last-minute resignation and raised concerns about Jackson’s ability to carry the torch of the high-energy populist movement ignited by Platner.”