Susan Collins concedes defeat to Troy Jackson in Maine
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Bénin Web TV
Republican Senator Susan Collins conceded defeat to Democrat Troy Jackson in Maine after nearly 30 years in the Senate and a bid for a sixth term. She congratulated him the day after the election, while the Associated Press had not yet officially called the race, the agency reports.
Republican Senator Susan Collins conceded defeat to Democrat Troy Jackson in Maine and abandoned her bid for a sixth term in the US Senate. She called her opponent to congratulate him the day after the 3 November election, according to Bénin Web TV, citing the Associated Press, which had not officially called the election at the time of the announcement.
At 73, Susan Collins is leaving a seat she had held since January 1997, after first being elected in 1996. Troy Jackson, 58, a former president of the Maine Senate and a fifth-generation lumberjack, was selected as the Democratic candidate in July after Graham Platner withdrew, according to Bénin Web TV.
Susan Collins’s defeat strengthens the Democrats, who had already been projected by the Associated Press to have won a majority in the Senate. The party also won Republican seats in Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio and Iowa, while the final seat count remained in progress.
The concession comes after the midterm elections in which the Democrats took both chambers of the US Congress on 4 November. It follows warnings that the Republicans risked losing both chambers issued on 3 November.
