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Mamdani calls on Platner to drop out of Maine Senate race
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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I saw some talk about a DSA backed candidate (Troy Jackson) who was hoping to step in if Platner dropped out. I guess he was in the original primary? But there's already allegations lodged against him . I haven't really looked into it beyond that though.
As far as I can tell this story only comes from Progressive Victory tweets, but they had to walk it back after getting a conflicting story from a member of his team. They also claim to have a bunch of other info about other candidates but they're only releasing this.
Progressive Victory was founded in collaboration with Vaush, briefly hired Brianna Wu, and frequently works with Destiny.
Edit: Washington Examiner cited a group called Progressive International but that seems to be an error
Can politicians not be sex pests for five fucking seconds?!
The accusation isn't sex-pest related.
Oh nvm then, I'm just used to it ALWAYS being that!
Jackson has been president of the maine senate for years. All he does is send state taxes to bath ironworks, a factory that builds ships for the navy and which is owned by general dynamics, a company which profits from genocide in palestine. Maine has had democrats running the show for quite some time and this is their only accomplishment.
He really doesn't count but Nirav D Shah posted about entering and changing his stance on M4A and Gaza as of, uh, yesterday.
https://xcancel.com/nirav_maine/status/2074512934684811618#m