Jordan Wood on Running to Replace Graham Platner: ‘People Would Say It’s Political Opportunism,’ But I Received a Lot of Threats to Get Out of the Race

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WOODS: "Yeah. When the reddit post came out, um, I took time to see what Graham‘s response to that would be. Um, and I again, to hear his explanation. Um, I didn‘t find it to be truthful, um, called for him to drop out, which people would say is political opportunism. We have ranked choice voting in Maine. So you actually have no incentive for calling someone to leave the race. It will upset their supporters. But when I did that, my hope was that there would be other national and party leaders in the state that joined me. Um, and nobody, nobody did. And I received a lot of just, uh, threats, uh, people telling me I needed to get out of the race. Um, and I didn‘t want to continue on a campaign where that question of why are you trying to bring down Graham Platner? Um, persisted. It was not productive. Graham and I agree on the issues. We‘re both millennials, reformers and, and so, um, I left the race. It was a hard decision, but ultimately, um, I didn‘t see that, that it was going to be helpful."