Moderate Dem Leader Takes A 'This Is Fine' Stance On A Second Trump Presidency
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In an op-ed, Blue Dog co-chair Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) downplayed Jan. 6 and the danger to democracy in the event of Donald Trump victory.
One of the leaders of a group of moderate and conservative House Democrats added to President Joe Biden’s political woes on Tuesday, saying in an op-ed that he wasn’t buying the idea a second Donald Trump term would be a “unique threat” to American democracy.
“I reject the premise. 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,” wrote Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine).
Golden is a co-chair of a vanishing but key group of House Democrats called the Blue Dog Coalition, which has often been a thorn in the side of party leaders by pushing for more centrist policy proposals, even as the Democrats’ liberal wing has been ascendant in recent years.
The 10-member group’s roster also reads like a who’s who of vulnerable Democratic House members. In addition to Golden, the other two group co-chairs, Reps. Mary Peltola (Alaska) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.) are on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “Frontline” list of vulnerable members.
Golden’s op-ed for the Bangor Daily News adds to pressure for Biden to withdraw from the White House race over concerns about his age and mental acuity.