Trump-won district battle heats up as Golden faces LePage in Maine race

Democratically Rep. Jared Golden From Maine, a potential nationwide offer for the governor or the Senate passes on and will instead strive for a re -election in an important swing congress district where the Republicans turn over in the 2026 elections.

“I decided that the best way to continue to serve people in Maine is to restore the balance in the congress by getting the House of Representatives back. My focus will be on the examination of the extremes and the first attempts of the working class,” said Golden on Tuesday morning in a social media post, as he announced his re-election.

Golden, a US marine veteran who was used in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, is a moderate democrat who often places his own party in the congress.

He held the seat in Main’s 2nd congress districtThis is one of the most competitive of the nation since the first win in 2018.

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Golden won the re -election through a razor -thin border last year in the district, the second most common rural area in the USA and the largest eastern east of the Mississippi. And president Donald Trump in the presidential elections 2016, 2020 and 2024 wore the district by nine, seven and ten points.

“While the choice is still 18 months away and I continue to concentrate on my responsibility for my voters and my family, I also know the way to the GOP majority through Maine,” said the 42-year-old Golden, who was the potential governor or Senate candidate.

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Since the Republicans want to defend their razor -thin housing majority in the meantime, Golden’s district is in the crosshairs.

National Republican Congress Committee The spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole said: “We look forward to making the democrat Jared Golden, whom he ran for the governor.”

But the tip Democrats in the house tour countered that “Jared’s commitment to the representation of all of his voters – regardless of their party affiliation – makes him unique to gain one of the hardest seats in the country, to keep the democrats”.

“He also helps the Democrats to shoot Republican seats in competitive districts throughout America.” House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), whip Katherine Clark (MA-05), Chairman Pete Aguilar (CA-33) and the chairman of the Democratic Congress Campaign Committee (DCCC), Suzan Delbene (WA-01), added in a joint statement.

Congress democrats who are against these Republicans of the house in 2026 against the mid -battle

Challenging gold is the former two-term republican Gov. Paul Lepagewho is a large Trump supporter and ally.

“I will do what is necessary to ensure that nobody like Paul Lepage Bluster,” said Golden in his announcement.

Lepage said in his first interview, after announcing his candidacy at the beginning of this month, Fox News Digital: “I have never had the efforts to go to Washington until now.”

“I think Donald Trump does what is necessary to fight the debts in this country. And I think that’s a big, big thing for me,” said Lepage, when he was interviewed in Lewiston, the city of Maine, where he was born and grew up.

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Lepage-the triads and blunt politicians who had to struggle with the economic problems that helped the Republican businessman to win the election and re-election in the blue-contamy state-one of the first major GOP officials who supported Trump when the president ran for the White House almost a decade ago.

“I just have a friend in the White House. I know President Trump. I think I can have an audience of President Trump. I know some of his secretaries very well. And I think that’s a good time. It’s a good time for me to help,” Lepage told Fox News.