Troy Jackson swapped out Senate campaign official also behind the super PAC backing Abdul el Sayed

Published July 31, 2026 6:00am ET



The now-former manager of Troy Jackson’s Senate campaign fund in Maine, which swapped him out on Wednesday hours after a Washington Examiner inquiry, is also the treasurer of the main super PAC supporting Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed.

Registration paperwork for Jackson’s newly established Senate fundraising committee shows that Peter Sarasohn, the former budget director of Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, was the Maine Democrat’s treasurer and custodian of records as recently as Wednesday — until a fresh disclosure filing removed all mentions of Sarasohn.

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