“Maine Democrats are on track to select a new Senate candidate later this week. Their likely pick? A former state lawmaker who lost the party’s recent gubernatorial primary, has no federal political experience and has only three months to assemble a campaign against a 30-year Republican incumbent,” NOTUS reports.“Most party leaders — including Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Kirsten Gillibrand, who said she’s ‘very optimistic that we will win Maine’ — say they haven’t felt this good about the race in months.”