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NCS and the Bangor Daily News have canceled Thursday’s scheduled Democratic U.S. Senate debate following former Maine Senate Troy Jackson’s consolidation of delegates and the exit of a number of rivals.
Jackson’s supporters won more than 450 of the 500 delegate slots up for grabs by means of this weekend’s county caucuses, a present of power that compelled prime rivals — former Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, former congressional aide Jordan Wood and brewery proprietor Dan Kleban — to end their campaigns and back Jackson.
The debate would have come lower than two days earlier than delegates gathered for the July 25 state conference in Bangor. That occasion now seems like will probably be a coronation for Jackson.
He now faces a high-profile showdown with U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a five-term Republican, in one of the vital intently watched Senate races within the nation.