REDSTATE (Nick Arama) - Troy Jackson Stumbles in Debate, Then Susan Collins Smokes Him on His Record
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and her Democrat opponent for Senate in Maine, Troy Jackson, squared off for their first debate in Portland on Tuesday.
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and her Democrat opponent for Senate in Maine, Troy Jackson, squared off for their first debate in Portland on Tuesday.
Despite an embarrassing scandal, Troy Jackson may be a stronger Democratic nominee. The post Platner is Gone—The Threat to Collins Isn’t appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Platner is Gone—The Threat to Collins Isn’t Despite an embarrassing scandal, Troy Jackson may be a stronger Democratic nominee. When Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee for Maine in this year’s midterm election, announced on July 8 that he was suspending his campaign and then formally withdrew two days later, many Republicans celebrated. A cascade of controversies, from his Nazi-linked tattoo to a sexual assault allegation he still denies, had shattered the campaign of the tough-talking, lumberjack-looking oyster farmer who’d pitched himself as a political outsider with deep Maine roots. Even Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), his earliest champions, turned on him. Though Republicans…Open
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