AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson joked he'd have 'ran as a communist' — and his record backs the drift
Troy Jackson, the Maine Democrat now challenging Sen. Susan Collins for a U.S. Senate seat, once told a room of voters he would have run for office "as a communist", a quip that looks less like a throwaway line the closer you examine his political evolution. Jackson made the remark in 2017 while speaking to […] The post Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson joked he'd have 'ran as a communist' — and his record backs the drift appeared first on American Almanac .
Troy Jackson, the Maine Democrat now challenging Sen. Susan Collins for a U.S. Senate seat, once told a room of voters he would have run for office "as a communist", a quip that looks less like a throwaway line the closer you examine his political evolution. Jackson made the remark in 2017 while speaking to Cumberland County voters in Maine, explaining how he first entered politics as a Republican in 2000 despite holding views his own neighbors recognized as Democratic. A New York Post report surfaced a YouTube video of the exchange, in which Jackson offered a candid, and revealing, account of his ideological flexibility. In the video, Jackson told the crowd he ran as a Republican in his first state House race simply because he "had no…Open