The Democrat Who’s Not That Worried About Trump
Hard to believe there are still reasonable democrats. Maybe the unreasonable (unhinged) ones will cancel him?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...a-will-be-just-fine-if-trump-wins/ar-AA1pZXv1
If you’ve gone to a Democratic campaign rally recently, chances are you’ve heard a version of the following sentence: This is the most important election of our lifetime.
Jared Golden isn’t buying it. The third-term House Democrat from Maine thinks America will be just fine if Donald Trump returns to the White House. “No matter who wins the presidency,” Golden told me last month at a Dunkin’ in his district, “the day after the election, America is going to get up and go to work.”
Golden may not think the presidential election matters all that much, but his constituents might end up deciding it. Maine is one of only two states that awards an Electoral College vote to the winner of each of its congressional districts. The easiest path to a Kamala Harris victory does not depend on her winning the electoral vote in Golden’s district, which Trump captured twice. But if the race is exceptionally close, the district could determine which party controls both the House and the presidency.
After the assassination attempt on Trump in July, Golden called on both parties to stop making “hyperbolic threats about the stakes of this election,” as he wrote on X. “It should not be misleadingly portrayed as a struggle between democracy or authoritarianism, or a battle against fascists or socialists bent on destroying America. These are dangerous lies.”
