Image: Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, here at a rally in Portland on May 1, appears poised to clinch the Democratic nomination for Senate. (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)

Mary Ellen McIntire of Roll Call reports: “Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson appears on track to clinch the Democratic nomination for Senate after his top competitors made weekend exits from the race.

Jackson had the support of a vast majority of delegates who were elected across the state’s counties over the weekend to serve at a convention Saturday to pick a replacement for Graham Platner, a progressive who won the nomination in a June primary but ended his campaign earlier this month in the face of a sexual assault allegation.

“We’re well on our way to getting the government that we f—ing deserve,” Jackson said in a video of him speaking to supporters posted to social media Saturday…”

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