Jordan Wood on Replacing Graham Platner: We Need a Candidate That Can Separate on a Moral Level, That Can Be Trusted

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WOODS: "Well, what we are facing right now is, is a, an emergency, but a challenge to put forward the best candidate that we can in the short amount of period to defeat Susan Collins. How does that candidate carry on the platform, the agenda that was voted for in the primary, I, I know this and the voters may know this because we campaigned on it. Um, Graham and I agree on many of the issues Medicare for all, universal child care, um, putting conditions on any aid to Israel, not taking corporate lobbyist donations. You know, there‘s agreement there. Voters know that it‘s not a new question. My website has had it up there the whole time. But we also need to find a candidate that is able to separate on a on a moral or character level, um, that can be trusted. Uh, you know, I, um, as the first Democrat that, that really called this out, um, with the hope that people in my own party would join me. Um, I think that, that there‘s a hard way to make that accusation that, um, I didn‘t do what I could to try to prevent the disaster we‘re dealing with right now. But I also am born and raised in Maine. I come from a working class family. My father is a pastor. I‘m raising my family in the same neighborhood that I lived in when I was in high school. Um, you know, again, Graham and I, we‘re, we‘re very different people, but but we are also pushing an agenda platform that is aligned. And I think that makes me uniquely qualified to, to be the candidate to carry in the Democrats we need, but also persuade over independents and, um, people that have voted for Susan Collins in the past."