BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson has secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine on Saturday. He will face longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins in November in a race that could decide which party controls the Senate. Jackson replaces Graham Platner, who won the Democratic primary in June but withdrew from the race earlier this month following an allegation of sexual assault that Platner has denied. Platner’s exit forced Democrats to quickly come up with a never-before-used process to choose a new nominee, which involved hundreds of delegates from across the state gathering in Bangor, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) north of Portland, to vote on a new nominee. Jackson won the support of almost all delegates to clinch the nomination.