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华盛顿讯——缅因州民主党人周六将举行本党提名大会，遴选11月大选中的美国参议院候选人以替代格雷厄姆·普拉特纳，前州参议院议长特洛伊·杰克逊有望获得提名。
本月早些时候普拉特纳因性侵指控退选后，约有十几名民主党人计划角逐该提名。
但上周缅因各郡举行提名会议选举代表后，参选阵营大幅缩减，杰克逊成功让其旗下的绝大多数代表当选。已选出的500名代表中，绝大多数都支持杰克逊。
杰克逊已基本锁定提名，非正式获得了决定最终候选人的多数代表席位。
这一结果使得该竞选的其他知名候选人——如缅因州务卿申娜·贝洛斯和缅因州疾病控制与预防中心前主任尼拉夫·沙阿——宣布退选。他们呼吁民主党团结起来，击败共和党议员苏珊·柯林斯。
但知名度较低的候选人戴维·科斯特洛和桑德拉·佩尔蒂埃仍将出现在周六的大会投票名单上。缅因啤酒公司联合创始人丹·克莱班也符合参选资格，但他表示将支持杰克逊，并已提交退选申请。
“我们期待周六直接听取这些候选人的意见，团结缅因州各地的民主党人，选出能够击败苏珊·柯林斯的最强候选人，”缅因州民主党执行主任德文·墨菲-安德森在一份声明中说道。
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在提名大会上，缅因州16个郡的代表将进行投票。虽然杰克逊阵营的代表在法律上没有义务支持他，但外界普遍预计他们会投出支持票。
特洛伊·杰克逊2026年6月5日在缅因州巴港的州长竞选活动中对记者发言。美联社照片/罗伯特·F·布卡蒂
关于特洛伊·杰克逊你需要知道的事
现年58岁的杰克逊是第五代伐木工，2018年至2024年担任州参议院议长，此前曾在缅因州最北部地区担任州众议员。他曾是共和党人，首次参选州众议院时以共和党人身份参选。杰克逊2002年以无党派人士身份首次当选州议员，之后加入民主党。
参选联邦参议员之前，他曾竞选州长，获得了普拉特纳和佛蒙特州无党派参议员伯尼·桑德斯的支持。杰克逊在6月的州长初选中排名第三。
他总体上与桑德斯立场一致，还曾参与桑德斯2016年的总统竞选活动，支持进步主义政策。
普拉特纳退出参议院竞选后，启动了遴选替代候选人的简化程序。缅因州选举法规定，6月获得提名的候选人必须在7月第二个周一下午5点前退选，才能替换 ballot 上的候选人，届时政党有两周时间遴选新候选人。
缅因州民主党通过提名大会听取缅因州民众意见后遴选候选人，并将大会安排在7月27日截止日期之前举行。
Maine Democrats meet to select Senate nominee to replace Graham Platner
July 25, 2026 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Maine Democrats are gathering Saturday for the party’s nominating convention to select a U.S. Senate nominee to replace Graham Platner on the ballot in November, with former state Senate President Troy Jackson poised to secure the nomination.
Around a dozen Democrats planned to seek the nomination earlier this month, after Platner dropped out of the race in the wake of a sexual assault allegation.
But the field narrowed last weekend after Maine counties held nomination meetings to select delegates, and Jackson succeeded in getting most of his slates of delegates elected. The vast majority of the 500 delegates elected are backing Jackson.
Jackson effectively locked up the nomination, having informally secured a majority of the delegate slots that will determine the nominee.
The outcome led the race’s other prominent candidates — like Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Nirav Shah — to bow out. They encouraged the party to come together to defeat Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
But lesser-known candidates David Costello and Saundra Pelletier are still set to appear on the convention ballot Saturday. Maine Beer Company co-founder Dan Kleban also qualified to appear on the ballot, but said he’s endorsing Jackson and submitted a request to withdraw.
“We look forward to hearing directly from these candidates and bringing Democrats from every corner of Maine together on Saturday to choose the strongest nominee to defeat Susan Collins,” Maine Democratic Party Executive Director Devon Murphy-Anderson said in a statement.
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At the nominating convention, delegates from Maine’s 16 counties will cast their votes. And while the delegates on Jackson’s slate aren’t legally bound to support him, they’re widely expected to do so.
Troy Jackson speaks to reporters at an event for his gubernatorial campaign on June 5, 2026, in Bar Harbor, Maine. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty
What to know about Troy Jackson
Jackson, 58 and a fifth-generation logger, was state Senate president from 2018 to 2024, and previously served as a state representative in Maine’s northernmost region. He used to be a Republican and in his first state House race ran as a Republican. Jackson was first elected to the state House as an independent in 2002, but then became a Democrat.
Before entering the race for U.S. Senate, he ran for governor and was backed by Platner and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Jackson finished third in the gubernatorial primary in June.
He’s generally aligned with Sanders, having also worked on his 2016 presidential campaign, and he supports progressive policies.
Platner’s departure from the Senate race triggered an abbreviated process to find a replacement. After winning the nomination in June, Maine election law stated that a nominee must withdraw by 5 p.m. on the second Monday in July in order to be replaced on the ballot, at which point the party has two weeks to select a new nominee.
Maine Democrats pursued the nominating convention to select a candidate with input from Mainers, and scheduled it just before the July 27 deadline.
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