Press Herald - With Graham Platner announcing Wednesday that he will withdraw from Maine’s Senate race after days of speculation, the question now becomes: Who will replace him?... Party officials are planning an in-person convention of about 600 people for the purpose of selecting a new Senate nominee, according to a person familiar with the planning who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to disclose details of the ongoing discussions.
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Intercept - In group chats of progressive activists and political operatives concerned with the state of the Senate race in Maine Wednesday morning, a link to an anonymous Google Doc was making the rounds. It disavowed Graham Platner, the disgraced Democratic nominee whose campaign was throttled by a rape accusation on Monday, and called to replace him with Troy Jackson, a recent gubernatorial contender the document deemed “the one candidate who can hold Platner’s coalition together.”
Platner suspended his Senate campaign on Wednesday evening,
and there is no clear alternative to his candidacy. His campaign’s swift
downfall has presented Democrats and his primary supporters with several bad
options: The party establishment could pick a candidate and inflame an already
frustrated base that scoffed at its efforts to anoint Gov. Janet Mills as the
nominee, or it could bend to Platner’s past demands and let him influence the
selection of his successor.
In either case, a base already exhausted by months of
Platner scandals is at risk of fracturing and failing to consolidate behind a
potential replacement — and Democrats are at risk of once again losing a key
seat they need to pick up for control of the Senate to Republican Sen. Susan
Collins.
NOTUS’ Emily Kennard reports on the fallout from the Platnerpocalypse inside Democratic politics. Has the progressive, populist push for more “outsider” candidates come at the expense of rigorous candidate vetting? A lot of people point at Maine and say obviously, yes. But progressives insist the party cannot turn away from outside-the-box candidates, even as they struggle with the aftermath of their strong support for Platner as red flag after red flag was waved.
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