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More than 5,500 Mainers have submitted their names to help choose Graham Platner’s replacement in the U.S. Senate race, as the Maine Democratic Party prepares for a first-of-its-kind convention to select a new nominee.

That figure includes Democrats looking to attend county caucuses this weekend to select the delegates to represent them, and those seeking to become delegates themselves, who will be responsible for voting in a replacement at the party’s July 25 convention. The assembly in Bangor will bring together 500 delegates from Maine’s 16 counties and 100 party members.

The party has until July 27 to choose Platner’s replacement after he dropped out of the race last week amid sexual assault allegations. The mini convention, about a third the size of its annual conventions, was the most transparent way to select a candidate, the party said. Whoever is chosen as the replacement will be fighting to flip a pivotal U.S. Senate seat held for decades by Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Thirteen candidates have submitted declarations of intent to the party chair as of Wednesday evening. The field includes three former gubernatorial candidates — Shenna Bellows, Troy Jackson and Nirav Shah — as well as Jordan Wood, who initially entered the Senate race before switching his candidacy to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Many of the other candidates are lesser-known political newcomers.


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