{"id":202658,"date":"2026-01-06T04:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202658"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:49:11","slug":"maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202658","title":{"rendered":"Maine Rep. Jared Golden will not run for reelection in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Jared Golden said Wednesday that he won\u2019t seek reelection next year, opening up a Republican-leaning seat in Maine that could be tough for his party to retain without him on the ballot.\u00a0\u00a0 In an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News, the fourth-term congressman said he has grown discouraged by the incivility of politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2025\/11\/05\/jared-golden-maine-reelection-democrats-republicans\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Jared Golden said Wednesday that he won\u2019t seek reelection next year, opening up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026.jpg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202658-maine-rep-jared-golden-will-not-run-for-reelection-in-2026-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}