Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson has announced he would like to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic Senate candidate. Platner dropped out of the campaign amid allegations of sexual assault. Platner has denied the accusations.

Jackson joins Katy Tur to share his pitch on why he will appeal to voters and to address his previous support of Platner.

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President Trump asking FIFA’s president to review a Team USA red card suspension has caused a major controversy in the World Cup. MS NOW contributor Pablo Torre breaks down why this intervention is also a “political briar patch.”

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Trump’s World Cup intervention benefited the USMNT star whose American citizenship exists because of the very right Trump wants to end.

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Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed faced off in the Michigan Primary Debate yesterday, in a duel of Democratic factions: establishment versus progressive. Meanwhile, Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has still not dropped out of the race after a new sexual assault allegation was leveled against him. The Morning Joe panel discusses the latest challenges Democrats face ahead of the midterms, including how Israel has become a wedge issue for the left.

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BREAKING: Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said his campaign is considering “the best path forward” after Politico interviewed a woman who previously dated Platner and accused him of sexual assault, an allegation the candidate denies.

In a statement provided to Politico and subsequently obtained by MS NOW, Platner called the allegations “troubling, serious, and false.”

The scandal-plagued candidate repeated his denial in a video posted to X shortly after the Politico story published.

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