{"id":6162,"date":"2026-07-16T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:05:24","slug":"cnn-and-bangor-daily-news-to-host-july-23-debate-for-maine-democrats-running-to-replace-graham-platner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6162","title":{"rendered":"CNN and Bangor Daily News to host July 23 debate for Maine Democrats running to replace Graham Platner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            As Maine Democrats scramble to find a new nominee for the state\u2019s highly consequential US Senate race, CNN will host a debate in partnership with the Bangor Daily News on Thursday, July 23, two days before 601 delegates gather at a convention to choose a new candidate.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6160\">Pluto flyby mission wakes up after long sleep nearly 6 billion miles from Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The two-hour debate will take place at 8 p.m. ET. The candidates will take questions from CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash as well as Bangor Daily News Political Editor Michael Shepherd. There will be a live audience including some of the delegates who will vote to decide the nominee along with Maine primary voters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A crowded field is vying to replace former nominee Graham Platner, whose campaign imploded earlier this month after he was accused of rape \u2013 an allegation he denies \u2013 weeks after he\u2019d won the Democratic nomination for US Senate.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Under pressure in a key battleground contest, where incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins has defied Democratic opponents for nearly two decades, state party officials have assembled plans to replace Platner just before the legal deadline at a June 25 state party convention.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6150\">Trump immediately fires the new court-appointed top prosecutor in Seattle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Two days after CNN\u2019s debate, 601 delegates will meet in Bangor to vote on a new nominee, with 500 to be selected at county meetings across Maine this weekend, and the other 101 automatically included from Maine\u2019s Democratic State Committee.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Candidates have until the end of Monday to submit 500 signatures to qualify for the convention ballot, including 50 signatures from at least eight separate counties.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6148\">Inside RFK Jr.\u2019s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Maine Democrats scramble to find a new nominee for the state\u2019s highly consequential US Senate race, CNN will host a debate in partnership with the Bangor Daily News on Thursday, July 23, two days before 601 delegates gather at a convention to choose a new candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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