Dems Poised To Pick Anoth­er Far-Left­ist To Replace Plat­ner

For­mer Maine Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Troy Jack­son has all but secured the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­na­tion in one of the nation’s most close­ly watched Sen­ate races after dom­i­nat­ing the party’s del­e­gate selec­tion process over the week­end, prompt­ing his two strongest rivals to sus­pend their cam­paigns ahead of next week’s state con­ven­tion.
Jack­son won over­whelm­ing vic­to­ries across Maine’s coun­ty meet­ings, with more than two-thirds of the 601 del­e­gates pledg­ing to back him at Saturday’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic con­ven­tion in Ban­gor. While del­e­gates are not for­mal­ly bound to sup­port him, there has been lit­tle indi­ca­tion that his com­mand­ing lead will erode before the final vote.
The rapid con­sol­i­da­tion around Jack­son comes le …