{"id":15294,"date":"2025-11-05T20:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/battleground-rep-jared-golden-will-not-seek-reelection\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:31:58","slug":"battleground-rep-jared-golden-will-not-seek-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/battleground-rep-jared-golden-will-not-seek-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Battleground Rep. Jared Golden will not seek reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Battleground Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) \u2014 who has thwarted repeated GOP efforts to unseat him in a red district \u2014 will not seek reelection, writing in an op-ed Wednesday \u201cthat now is the right time to step away from elected office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Golden was facing both a primary challenge from his left and a strong challenge from former Maine GOP Gov. Paul LePage in the state\u2019s 2nd District, which President Donald Trump won by about 10 points in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never loved politics,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/2025\/11\/05\/opinion\/opinion-contributor\/jared-golden-why-i-wont-seek-reelection-column\/\" target=\"_blank\">Golden wrote in the Bangor Daily News<\/a>. \u201cBut I find purpose and meaning in service, and the Marine in me has been able to slog along through the many aspects of politics I dislike by focusing on the good work that Congress is capable of producing with patience and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a breaking news story that will be updated.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battleground Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) \u2014 who has thwarted repeated GOP efforts to unseat him in a red district \u2014 will not seek reelection, writing in an op-ed Wednesday \u201cthat now is the right time to step away from elected office.\u201d Golden was facing both a primary challenge from his left and a strong challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}