Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) wrote in an op-ed for the Bangor Daily News that Donald Trump is going to win the presidential election. “After the first presidential debate, lots of Democrats are panicking about whether President Joe Biden should step down as the party’s nominee. Biden’s poor performance in the debate was not a surprise. It also didn’t rattle me as it has others, because the outcome of this election has been clear to me for months,” Golden wrote. “While I don’t plan to vote for him, Donald Trump is going to win. And I’m OK with that,” he added. Just in: Maine Democrat Congressman Jared Golden writes “Donald Trump is going to win. And I’m OK with that.” Via Bangor Daily pic.twitter.com/A8SjgKzMNa — The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) July 2, 2024 Dem Rep. Jared Golden in a new op-ed: “While I don’t plan to vote for him, Donald Trump is going to win. And I’m OK with that.”https://t.co/PKsfTBE8GS — Reese Gorman (@reesejgorman) July 2, 2024 Golden writes in the Bangor Daily News: This election is about the economy, not democracy. And when it comes to our economy, our Congress matters far more than who occupies the White House. Some of Congress’ best work in recent years has happened in spite of the president, not because of him. A handful of responsible Democrats, including myself and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, rejected Biden’s bloated “Build Back Better” bill and instead passed a law that supercharged American energy production, saved Medicare billions of dollars and reduced the deficit. Years earlier, Congress stood up to the GOP establishment who tried to hijack Trump’s agenda to achieve their long-held goal of repealing the Affordable Care Act. Defeating them saved health coverage for tens of millions of Americans and protections for people with preexisting conditions. It was Congress that wrote and passed the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act to bring back manufacturing so we can once again be a nation of producers, not just consumers. We wrote laws to unleash American energy by tapping domestic natural resources — oil and gas, biomass, the sun and wind — as well as nuclear power to ensure a steady supply of affordable, reliable energy. And we passed an infrastructure law that’s already building and improving roads, bridges and ports. In 2025, I believe Trump is going to be in the White House. Maine’s representatives will need to work with him when it benefits Mainers, hold him accountable when it does not and work independently across the aisle no matter what. Congress will need to stand up to economic elites and so-called experts in both parties who are already working overtime to stop Trump’s proposed trade policies that would reverse the harms of globalization and protect American businesses from unfair foreign competition. We need to protect from extremists the law I helped pass that caps seniors’ insulin costs at $35 and forces Big Pharma to negotiate and lower the cost of prescription drugs. Perhaps more importantly, members must stand up to the GOP old-guard who will use a Trump presidency as cover for handouts to the wealthy and powerful at the cost of America’s working families and communities. Democratic Rep. Jared Golden says he expects Trump to win the 2024 election https://t.co/OTgo1cwxTQ pic.twitter.com/SpWO7u45e1 — TheBlaze (@theblaze) July 3, 2024 In an op-Ed, Democrat Rep. Jared Golden of Maine writes: “Trump is going to win the election and democracy will be just fine. Unlike Biden and many others, I refuse to participate in a campaign to scare voters with the idea that Trump will end our democratic system.” pic.twitter.com/4k8jIo9Juh — Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) July 2, 2024 The Hill reports: Golden, like all other House lawmakers, is up for reelection this year. He will take on Maine state Rep. Austin Theriault, a Republican, in the general election this fall. Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan index, ranks Golden’s district as a toss-up. Trump carried the district by 6 points in 2020. His op-ed is a stark contrast to comments from Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), who on Tuesday became the first House Democrat to publicly call on Biden to remove himself from the race. In a post on social media platform X, Theriault said Golden’s piece was “a very phony attempt to avoid accountability.” He asked Golden if he supports Biden or not and whether he believes the president is mentally competent. “He won’t say, because he puts politics ahead of Mainers,” Theriault said.

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An official in former President Barack Obama’s cabinet called on President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race amid worsening signs for his re-election campaign. Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro said in a post on X that Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week against former President Donald Trump “disturbingly demonstrated that he is unable to effectively prosecute the case against Donald Trump—much less inspire and mobilize voters to the polls.” Castro claimed that Biden had a strong record as president, but said that “a strong record is not enough when the stakes are this high.” “Sadly, President Biden is not the campaigner he was in 2020—and looks very likely to lose to Trump,” he said. “I am convinced that a number of other Democrats, including Vice President Harris, stand a better chance of winning.” “Defeating Donald Trump is too important for Democrats to do nothing. With the understanding that the stakes are so high, President Biden should make the difficult decision to withdraw from the race,” he concluded. “President Biden should fulfill his promise to be a bridge to the next generation of leadership—and allow a stronger Democratic candidate to prevent a disastrous second Trump term. Time is running out.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Defeating Donald Trump is too important for Democrats to do nothing. With the understanding that the stakes are so high, President Biden should make the difficult decision to withdraw from the race. — Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) July 3, 2024 Three Democrat officeholders stated on Tuesday that they believe Biden will lose to Trump this fall, including Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), who called on Biden to step down; Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), and Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME). Related: Biden Admits He Almost Fell Asleep During Trump Debate

Former President Barack Obama appears to be souring on President Joe Biden’s re-election chances in private talks with allies, just days after he published a statement backing the failing 81-year-old president. The Washington Post reported that Obama is telling top allies who reach out that Biden’s “already-tough path to reelection grew more challenging” after his disastrous debate performance. The report said that Obama has long warned Biden about how hard it will be for him to beat Trump and that he has expressed serious concerns to Democrats in recent weeks about the trouble they are in for the upcoming election. The Post’s report about Obama’s harsher tone about Biden in private comes as new polling from Reuters/Ipsos released on Tuesday found that only former first lady Michelle Obama is able to beat Trump in a head-to-head matchup and she does so by a double-digit margin, 50-39. Following the debate last week, Obama posted on X: “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November.” Obama allegedly warned Democrats several years ago against choosing Biden for the party’s nominee, saying: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” Obama also allegedly told one of the other Democrats who ran in 2020: “And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The New York Times reported that Obama tried to discourage Biden from running, saying: “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t.” Obama also reportedly summoned a meeting with top officials from Biden’s 2020 campaign where he told them that they needed to make sure that Biden did not “embarrass himself” or “damage his legacy” during the campaign. The news comes as three Democrat officeholders stated on Tuesday that they believe Biden will lose to Trump this fall, including Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), who called on Biden to step down; Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), and Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME). Obama’s former HUD Secretary Julian Castro also called on Biden to resign on Tuesday. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that those closest to Biden have noticed that he “increasingly appeared confused or listless, or would lose the thread of conversations” and that these incidents are “growing more frequent, more pronounced and more worrisome.” The White House is refusing to let Kevin C. O’Connor, the White House physician, answer questions from the media about Biden’s condition and said that O’Connor does not believe that Biden needs to be re-evaluated for Parkinson’s disease — even though the condition that most speculate Biden has is some form of dementia. The administration went even further and denied that Biden had ever taken “Levodopa or other drugs for that condition.” As Biden appears to be circling the drain, his inner circle is tightening its grip and shielding him even more from public view in an effort to protect him from making further mistakes. NBC News reported on Tuesday that Biden’s son, convicted felon and drug addict Hunter Biden, was now attending official White House meetings with the president to the shock of most in the administration.

I hope this means that Gregg Berhalter is being fired