If it comes to a new candidate
Potential replacements
If Platner does decide to end his campaign, attention would quickly turn to who Democrats would choose to replace him.
Two-term Gov. Janet Mills ran in the Democratic primary, but dropped out of the race in April after lagging well behind Platner, the oyster farmer and political newcomer. Other names mentioned by party strategists and Maine Democrats as possibilities on Monday included two losing gubernatorial candidates on this year’s primary ballot: Nirav Shah, former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention; and former state Sen. Troy Jackson, a logger who was endorsed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the governor’s race and campaigned alongside Platner.
Other names being floated by strategists Monday included Dan Kleban, a brewery owner who ended his Senate campaign shortly after launching it last year to endorse Mills, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who has a long list of progressive supporters, and state Sen. Joe Baldacci, who lost a congressional primary this year.
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