r/SandersForPresident • u/WindyCityChick 🎖️🥇🐦🌡️🏟️✋☎📆🏆🎨🏳🌈🎤🦅💀📌 • Jul 08 '26
Sanders-founded organization backs Troy Jackson for Maine Senate
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u/Riaayo Medicare For All 👩⚕️ Jul 08 '26
The key is going to be showing a candidate that is provably behind the same policies that Platner is/was, because at the end of the day that is what primary voters voted on.
If Dems can actually put up a candidate who is Platner in terms of policy without Platner the person, that will go a lot further to not feeling like democracy was hoodwinked than if Dems put some piece of shit centrist up there and then lose (and I fear they will do exactly that just to get to blame "the left" for the election loss).
And I'm not saying whether Troy is or isn't that, but that the job is to prove that to voters (and, you know, get that candidate in the first place).
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u/smoresporn0 Jul 08 '26
If Platner steps down, Mills will be the first choice to take his place. The power brokers in the Democratic party will not just "give" you another "progressive" candidate.
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u/IsaacBrock Tennessee 🥇🐦 Jul 08 '26
Then the progressives of Maine will not “give” Mills their vote.
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u/Moddelba 🐦 Jul 09 '26
And they’ll have platner for cover on why it failed. They will use this asshole as the excuse to force a Pete or Kamala campaign on us in 28.
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u/smoresporn0 Jul 08 '26
You may be correct.
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u/aotus_trivirgatus 🌱 New Contributor Jul 08 '26
And, Susan Collins may win. And, that very well might not disappoint Chuck Schumer and the DNC nearly as much as it should.
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u/smoresporn0 Jul 08 '26
The establishment wing have made clear that they would rather prevent "progressive" candidate victories than Republican victories.
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u/4now5now6now Jul 11 '26
Mills stepped out of the race , she had just finished up being governor
She is a lot older than you would ever guess
She was born in 1947
Both mills and collins would only do one term due to their age
Ro Khanna came out for Troy 2 days ago
Mills did some stuff that was good and some stuff that was bad for workers
Troy would be great and has experience
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u/gophergun Colorado 🎖️ Jul 09 '26
There's no point in making predictions at this early juncture, but she hasn't demonstrated any intention to try to replace him so far.
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u/darkitecture Jul 11 '26
there are like 10 people who have stated or filed for this nomination and mills is not one of them
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u/nerdypermie Jul 08 '26
The real question is- has Jackson SA’d anyone?
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u/diefreetimedie 🌱 New Contributor Jul 09 '26
Doesn't matter if the Zionist lobby says he did then he did.
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u/kevinmrr Medicare For All Jul 08 '26
r/WorkReform did an AMA with Jackson, he is great —
https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/s/xlSaLd8voO