The Related Press tasks that Democratic Rep. Jared Golden will win re-election in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, a red-leaning district in an total blue state, by defeating Republican challenger Austin Theriault.
He confronted Republican Theriault, a former NASCAR driver, who’s a first-term state lawmaker who aimed to flip the seat from blue to purple.
Golden, a Marine veteran who served fight excursions within the wars in Afghanistan and Iraqi, is a reasonable Democrat who is usually at odds together with his get together and with President Biden’s administration.
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Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, speaks at a information convention in Augusta, Me. (AP Photograph/Robert F. Bukaty)
The congressman made headlines earlier this 12 months when he mentioned he “did not know” whether or not he would vote for Biden’s re-election and was one of many first Democrats in Congress to query the 81-year-old president’s psychological and bodily skills to deal with one other 4 years within the White Home.
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Golden, who was first elected to Congress in 2018, has now received 4 straight elections within the swing district.
Austin Theriault seems on the NASCAR Monster Vitality Cup sequence race, in Richmond, Va., in 2019. (AP Photograph/Steve Helber)
Maine and Nebraska are the one two states within the nation to allocate their electoral votes in presidential elections by congressional district. And whereas Maine is reliably blue in White Home races, former President Trump carried Maine’s second district in each 2016 and 2020.
The largely rural district, which contains roughly 80% of Maine’s complete land space, is the most important congressional district east of the Mississippi River.
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