Presumptive Democratic Nominee Troy Jackson Raises More Than $1 Million Since Launching Maine Senate Campaign

The presumptive Democratic nominee for this year’s U.S. Senate race in Maine, Troy Jackson, has raised more than $1 million for his campaign in the two weeks since he announced his bid. Mr. Jackson is expected to accept his party’s nomination at a convention of delegates on Saturday. Mr. Jackson swiftly locked up the nomination this past weekend at a number of county delegate election meetings. In order to win the nomination, he must receive at least 301 of the 601 delegate votes which will be cast at the convention. As of Wednesday, Mr. Jackson officially has the support of more than 450. His major opponents for the Senate nomination quickly dropped out and rallied to Mr. Jackson after it became clear that he had the requisite support of delegates to become the presumptive nominee. On Wednesday, Mr. Jackson’s campaign announced that it had raised more than $1 million for the new candidate’s effort to unseat Senator Susan Collins. Also on Wednesday, Mr. Jackson was the fifth-highest recipient of donations through the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, behind only Senator Jon Ossoff, Senate candidates James Talarico and Abdul El-Sayed, and Michigan gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson. Mr. Jackson’s $1 million fundraising haul was first reported by Politico. Nearly 25,000 individual contributors donated to Mr. Jackson’s campaign. On Tuesday, the University of New Hampshire released a poll showing Mr. Jackson and Ms. Collins in a statistical tie, with Mr. Jackson taking 49 percent and Ms. Collins taking 46 percent, which is inside of the poll’s 4.3 percent margin of error. Mr. Jackson has a net positive favorable rating, with 37 percent of Mainers having a positive view of him, while 32 percent hold a negative view. Ms. Collins is underwater, with 53 percent of voters having a negative view of her and 35 percent having a favorable opinion of the longtime senator. Mr. Jackson will inherit the Senate nomination from Graham Platner, the scandal-plague former nominee who dropped out of the race after he was accused of rape by a former girlfriend. He denies the allegation, though many of his prominent backers called on him to drop out of the race after the accusation was made. Senator Chuck Schumer and the head of Democrats’ fundraising operation, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, said the party would not invest one penny in the Maine Senate race if Mr. Platner remained on the ballot. Mr. Jackson and Mr. Platner share many political positions, including support for Medicare for All and an end to American support for Israel. Mr. Jackson, a former state senate president, has an track record of winning elections in deep-red areas unlike Mr. Platner, who had never before run for public office before announcing his Senate campaign last year.

Presumptive Democratic Nominee Troy Jackson Raises More Than $1 Million Since Launching Maine Senate Campaign

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