Maine Democrats Have An Abortion Problem – And Unfortunately For Them It’s Named Troy Jackson

Democrats in Maine thinking they can go after Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins for alleged duplicity on abortion better do their diligence.

National Public Radio says the Democrat nominee, Troy Jackson, has as much if not more to explain on abortion after switching from being pro-life to pro-death.

By all accounts a Democrat by acclamation should be touting freedom of choice, the default position for a candidate from the left.

But Jackson was against abortion before he was for it.

The 2026 election will be the first time Collins is back on the ballot since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

“Collins has long voiced support for abortion protections, but in 2018, her vote was crucial in confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, expanding a conservative majority that went on to eliminate the right to abortion,” National Public Radio’s Elena Moore says.

Collins later said Kavanaugh misled her regarding his views on Roe v. Wade after he voted to overturn it, a point left out of Moore”s piece.

“Democrats want to make Collins’ vote for Kavanaugh a key point of contention,” Moore adds. “But it’s also a topic where Jackson’s views have evolved.”

“Evolved.” The friendly word for flip-flopped.

Jackson “initially entered politics as an abortion opponent, but shifted left over time and voted to expand access in recent years, post-Roe,” Moore notes.

“This was a conversion motivated by political convenience and marked a complete reversal of his long-held positions,” Collins’ campaign communications director Blake Kernen said in a statement.

Jackson “shifting” and Collins having been lied to by a judicial nominee are two different animals, a distinction Democrats may want to study.

Moore says the election will likely be decided by older, “independent” women.

Jackson became the default Democrat candidate last month after Graham Platner withdrew from the race amid accusations of alleged inappropriate or, in at least one case, illegal, behavior.

But ironically it wasn’t women who drove Platner into political obscurity, it was the male leadership of the Democrat braintrust afraid he’d become an electoral millstone.

The truth is women couldn’t get enough the bearded, virile 41-year-old ex-Marine.

In fact, they liked Platner so much they chose him by seventy points over, yes, a woman – Janet Mills, a 78-year-old two-term-limited governor.

During the primary campaign, as women began coming forward complaining Platner had mistreated them, female Maine Democrat Party leaders held news conferences defending him.

They had a choice in a candidate – an accused, alleged abuser of women, or a woman.

They chose Platner overwhelmingly when it came to him or Mills.

Platner’s key demographic – older women – never cared about his misogyny. His crude behavior appealed to their maternal instincts, a bad boy who just needed a good lecture.

As bad as Platner may have treated women in his own personal life, he was utterly convincing when he would speak from the stump defending women’s rights.

Now Democrat women have a guy as their beloved new standard bearer who had children with his cousin.

It’s a choice that won’t be easy to defend especially when a man’s treatment of women is on the ballot front and center.