The Democrat Who Says America Will Be Just Fine if Trump Wins

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : "We're the party of the working class; the party of working people; the party standing up against the worst excesses of free trade; the party of choice; the party of health, civil rights, good governance, anti-corruption, campaign-finance reform -- all these things that I'm fighting for," he said.
63% : Trump carried the district by seven points in 2020.
47% : "Golden is no longer as sure as he once was that Trump will win the presidency.
45% : But he still has no doubt whom his constituents will vote for: "I can tell you Trump's going to win my district by a healthy margin.
39% : The GOP, she noted, pushed out lawmakers who did not line up behind Trump.
36% : As for 2024, Golden's serenity about the presidential election has less to do with his feelings toward the Republican nominee than his conviction that the country can contain Trump.
29% : But as one of only five House Democrats who represents a district that Trump carried in 2020, Golden has good reason to avoid sounding alarms about the former president.
27% : Shortly after I left Maine, I got an unexpected call from a Harris spokesperson, who insisted that the campaign had no intention of ceding the district's electoral vote to Trump.
26% : "We withstood whatever he brought at us last time around," Golden told me after I pressed him to explain why he disagrees with Democrats who argue that Trump would be more dangerous in a second term.
25% : The easiest path to a Kamala Harris victory does not depend on her winning the electoral vote in Golden's district, which Trump captured twice.
25% : Kyle Nees, a veteran supporting Golden, wasn't a fan of either Harris or Trump.
23% : He's said he won't vote for Trump, but he has refused to endorse Harris.
21% : After the assassination attempt on Trump in July, Golden called on both parties to stop making "hyperbolic threats about the stakes of this election," as he wrote on X. "It should not be misleadingly portrayed as a struggle between democracy or authoritarianism, or a battle against fascists or socialists bent on destroying America.

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