{"id":9441,"date":"2025-05-20T19:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jared-golden-opts-for-reelection-bid-in-trump-favored-district-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:23:15","slug":"jared-golden-opts-for-reelection-bid-in-trump-favored-district-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jared-golden-opts-for-reelection-bid-in-trump-favored-district-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Golden opts for reelection bid in Trump-favored district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) announced he would seek a fifth term in the House on Tuesday, ending speculation that he could run statewide instead. Golden has held a battleground district won by President Donald Trump three times since he first flipped the seat in 2018 &mdash; making him a prime target for the Republican Party ahead of the 2026 midterms&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/20\/congress\/jared-golden-reelection-2026-00358438\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) announced he would seek a fifth term in the House on Tuesday, ending speculation that he could run statewide instead. Golden has held a battleground district won by President Donald Trump three times since he first flipped the seat in 2018 &mdash; making him a prime target for the Republican Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9441","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\/9441","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=9441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}