2026年8月15日 美国东部时间早上7:00 / 福克斯新闻
前民主党全国委员会主席将这篇报道斥为“低俗八卦”，而杰克逊的竞选团队则将矛头指向苏珊·柯林斯为爆料者
撰稿人：汉娜·布伦南 福克斯新闻
前民主党全国委员会主席唐娜·布拉泽尔否认知晓有关缅因州参议院民主党候选人特洛伊·杰克逊与其二代堂妹育有两名子女的报道。（图片来源：尼古拉斯·巴拉西 为福克斯新闻数字频道拍摄）
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在有关缅因州参议院候选人特洛伊·杰克逊与表妹育有子女的报道曝光后，知名民主党人士并未撤销对他的支持。
此前，极左翼候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳因一系列争议事件最终被控强奸，于今夏早些时候被迫退选，这场本就风波不断的参议院选举因此再次陷入混乱。而前民主党全国委员会主席唐娜·布拉泽尔是众多为杰克逊相关指控泼冷水的民主党人士之一。
如今，杰克逊又面临更多风波：一份1988年的警方报告重新浮出水面，指控他曾实施殴打。
“很多人把八卦当成新闻来报道，我不想报道可能并非事实的消息——尤其是涉及如此私人的事情——那不是我的行事风格，”当被问及杰克逊与表妹育有两名子女、并与其长期伴侣拉娜·佩尔蒂埃共同抚养一事时，布拉泽尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
唐娜·布拉泽尔出席参议院司法委员会就凯坦吉·布朗·杰克逊出任最高法院大法官提名的 markup 听证会，2022年4月4日周一，哈特大楼。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-滚呼公司 via 盖蒂图片社）
网络哗然：关键参议院席位的普拉特纳替代者被曝与二代堂妹育有子女
尽管普拉特纳在6月9日的初选中获胜，但杰克逊最终成为缅因州参议院民主党候选人。普拉特纳于7月10日正式退选——此时距离民主党为11月的大选替换候选人的截止时间仅剩不久。
但就在杰克逊获得提名参选仅几周后，一则令人震惊的网络报道引发轩然大波，称与其共同抚养两名子女的长期伴侣是他的表妹。
当被问及杰克逊与表妹的关系时，作为民主党资深人士、党派长期操盘手的布拉泽尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，她“对杰克逊先生一无所知”。
“我祝他一切顺利。我认识……部分候选人，但我祝他们好运，”布拉泽尔说道，对这些具体指控持不置可否的态度。
“谎言太多了，”布拉泽尔继续说道，“我真的不想评论低俗八卦——也就是影射。”
“我所知道的是，这将是竞争最激烈的选区之一，我们所有人都会在秋季关注这场选举，”她总结道。
这一爆炸性报道给本就动荡的选举带来了新的威胁，民主党正试图拿下现任参议员苏珊·柯林斯（R-缅因州）所持有的参议院席位。
福克斯新闻民调：新对决，结果依旧：缅因州参议院竞选胶着不变
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观看：民主党参议员在爆炸性报道曝光后回避是否支持特洛伊·杰克逊的问题
《缅因导线报》编辑史蒂文·鲁宾逊报道称，杰克逊与“有血缘关系”的二代堂妹、据称是他高中恋人的拉娜·佩尔蒂埃共同育有两名子女。这位独立记者在发布其家谱调查结果时称，佩尔蒂埃的父亲是杰克逊母亲的表亲。
“我认为查明事实很重要，”布拉泽尔在谈及该报道时表示。
作为资深政治战略家，布拉泽尔曾于2011年和2016年两度出任民主党全国委员会临时主席。她在多届中期选举周期中始终是民主党政坛的有影响力声音，还常在重大选举失利后就候选人及政党整体方向发表看法。
在布拉泽尔和其他民主党人拒绝放弃对杰克逊的支持后不久，一份1988年的警方报告重新浮出水面，指控杰克逊在一场围绕佩尔蒂埃的争执中殴打一名男子。
同一份报告还称，佩尔蒂埃告诉警方，杰克逊“推搡过她”。
杰克逊在福克斯新闻数字频道获得的一份声明中表示：“当时我就为这场斗殴承担了责任，现在我依然会承担责任。”
佩尔蒂埃则在另一份发给福克斯新闻数字频道的声明中为杰克逊辩护，称报告中归咎于她的说法“并不准确”。
“我不记得说过那些被安在我头上的话，那些话并不属实，”她说，“这是我第一次看到这份40年前的报告。特洛伊和我一起建立了生活和家庭，我了解他几十年来的为人，既是体贴的伴侣，也是合格的父亲。”
身陷争议的缅因州民主党人尽管丑闻缠身，民调仍与柯林斯持平，最新民调显示
2026年5月24日，缅因州欧罗诺市缅因大学奥罗诺分校柯林斯艺术中心，民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳与特洛伊·杰克逊在“对抗寡头统治”巡回造势活动中同台。（乔·雷德尔/盖蒂图片社）
杰克逊的对手是自1997年起担任参议员的柯林斯。这位民主党候选人指责柯林斯团队为“可耻且孤注一掷”的抹黑竞选手段，称是他们炮制了自己与二代堂妹育有子女的指控。
但他在此前接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，从未直接否认过自己的两名子女的母亲佩尔蒂埃是其表妹这一说法。
“苏珊·柯林斯为了转移人们对她96%的投票都与特朗普一致、出卖缅因州工薪阶层事实的注意力，不择手段。对特洛伊家庭的人身攻击可耻又走投无路，”杰克逊的竞选团队在声明中说道。
杰克逊的竞选团队未回应对福克斯新闻数字频道最近的置评请求。
福克斯新闻数字频道的保罗·施陶伊泽为本报道贡献了内容。
Top Dem operative brushes off latest scandal plaguing Maine Senate candidate as ‘salacious gossip’
August 15, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News
The former DNC chair dismissed the report as ‘salacious gossip’ while Jackson’s campaign blamed Susan Collins for the claims
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Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile denied knowing anything about the report that Maine Senate Democratic candidate Troy Jackson fathered two children with his second cousin. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital)
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High profile Democrats aren’t backing off their support for Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson following reports he fathered children with his cousin.
Former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile was among the chorus of party voices throwing cold water on the claims about Jackson in a scandal-plagued Senate race that was already upended after former far-left candidate Graham Platner was forced to drop out earlier this summer following a series of controversies that culminated in a rape allegation.
And now, Jackson is facing even more turmoil with the most recent revelations of a 1988 police report accusing him of assault.
“There’s a lot of people who are doing a lot of gossip as news, and I don’t want to break news that might not be true — especially on something so personal — that’s not what I do,” Brazile told Fox News Digital when asked about the report Jackson had two children with his cousin and longtime partner Lana Pelletier.
Donna Brazile attends the Senate Judiciary Committee markup on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, in Hart Building on Monday, April 4, 2022.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Jackson became the Democrat nominee for Senate in Maine despite Platner winning the June 9 primary race. Platner formally dropped out on July 10 — just in time for the Democratic Party to select a replacement for the November general election ballot.
But just weeks after being nominated to step into the race, Jackson came under fire when a shocking report hit the internet claiming his longtime partner, with whom he shares two children, is his cousin.
Brazile, a veteran Democrat and longtime operative for the party, told Fox News Digital she doesn’t “know anything about Mr. Jackson,” when asked about the relationship with his cousin.
“I wish him the best of luck. I don’t know many… some of the nominees, but I wish them the best luck,” Brazile said, remaining agnostic to those particular claims.
“There are so many lies,” Brazile went on. “I don’t really want to comment on salacious gossip — innuendos.”
“All I know is that that’s going to be one of the most competitive races, and we’ll all be watching in the fall,” she concluded.
The bombshell report introduces another threat to the already tumultuous race where Democrats are trying to flip the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
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The Maine Wire editor Steven Robinson reported that Jackson shares two children with his second cousin “by blood” and alleged high school sweetheart, Lana Pelletier. In posting the genealogical findings, the independent journalist claimed Pelletier’s father is a cousin of Jackson’s mother.
“I think it’s important to get the facts,” Brazile said about the report.
A longtime political strategist, Brazile served as interim chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and again in 2016. She has remained an influential voice within Democratic politics through multiple midterm election cycles and has often weighed in on candidates and the party’s overall direction following major electoral setbacks.
Shortly after Brazile and other Democrats refused to abandon their support for Jackson in the Maine Senate race, a police report from 1988 resurfaced accusing Jackson of assaulting a man in an altercation over Pelletier.
The same report states that Pelletier told the police that Jackson “pushed her around.”
Jackson said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital said, “I took responsibility for [the fight] then, and I take responsibility for it now.”
Pelletier, for her part, claimed the statements attributed to her in the report are “not accurate,” and defended Jackson in a separate statement to Fox News Digital.
“I do not remember making the statements attributed to me and they are not accurate,” she said. “This is the first time I have seen this report from 40 years ago. Troy and I have built a life and family together and I know the person he has been through the decades since, both as a caring partner and father.”
EMBATTLED MAINE DEMOCRAT DEADLOCKED WITH COLLINS DESPITE CONTROVERSIES IN KEY SENATE RACE, NEW POLL SHOWS
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner and Troy Jackson stand together during a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in Orono, Maine, on May 24, 2026.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Jackson is up against Collins, who has held her Senate seat since 1997. The Democrat candidate accused Collins’ team of being responsible for the accusation that he fathered his second cousin’s children as a “shameful and desperate” attempt to bruise his campaign.
But he has never directly denied in previous statements to Fox News Digital the claims that Pelletier, the mother of his two children, is his cousin.
“Susan Collins will do anything to distract from the fact that she votes with Trump 96% of the time and has sold out working people in Maine. Personal attacks on Troy’s family are shameful and desperate,” Jackson’s campaign said in the statement.
Jackson’s campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s most recent requests for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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