“It’s no secret when I ran for the legislature in 2000, I was a Republican. And I had no idea. All I cared about was getting into the legislature because that seemed to be the place that I could fix some of the problems that were happening in my area. I would’ve ran as anything, I would’ve ran as a communist. I just wanted to get to a place to do something to help the people in my area.”— Maine U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson (D), quoted by the New York Post in 2017.