Kristen Welker: “Democrats have now replaced Graham Platner as the Senate…”

“All right. A number of more questions to get through with you. I do want to talk about Maine. Democrats have now replaced Graham Platner as the Senate Democratic nominee with former state Senator Troy Jackson. Graham Platner's candidacy, of course, as you know, was derailed by a series of controversies. And when he dropped out, the party only had a matter of days to settle on a replacement.” (08:01–08:09)

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