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Former Maine gubernatorial candidate and potential Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson struggled to answer for his past support for Graham Platner during an MS NOW interview on Thursday.Before Platner officially suspended his campaign amid a rape allegation, Jackson filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to potentially replace Platner as the Democratic nominee for the U.S.Senate.
Prior to the recent allegation against Platner, Jackson was one of his earliest supporters and previously campaigned with Platner during his gubernatorial campaign.MS NOW's "The Moment" host Katy Tur questioned him on his longtime support for Platner, pointing out that he maintained his support through several other scandals.PLATNER ACCUSER RECALLS 'GASLIGHTING,' ‘BETRAYAL’ FROM NY TIMES AS SHE CAME FORWARD WITH HER ALLEGATIONSTroy Jackson filed paperwork to potentially replace Graham Platner as Maine's Democratic Senate nominee.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)"You supported him," Tur began.
"You bragged about being one of the first supporters of him.Why did you stick with him for so long? Why did you stick with him after the Nazi tattoo? Why did you stick with him after The New York Times article and the aggressive women stuff, stick with him after the Reddit posts that were arguably racist and sexist? I know he denies the sexual misconduct allegations, but why did you stay with him for so long?""Well, the Nazi tattoo and the Reddit posts, I mean, I didn’t know — I mean, I haven’t ever been on Reddit, but, you know, when people talked about those things, and then he turned around and said, you know, that these were times whenever they were dark for him and, you know, he’d grown and all this stuff," Jackson said.
"I mean, they were, you know, a different time period for him.And I understood, you know, that people can change."GRAHAM PLATNER EX REVEALS REACH-OUT BEFORE CAMPAIGN, SAYS HE WAS TRYING TO 'TAKE MY TEMPERATURE'Jackson added that he was more focused on Pl...