Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) wrote in an op-ed on Tuesday that he believes President Joe Biden is going to lose this fall and that he’s okay with former President Donald Trump coming back into power.
Golden’s remarks come after Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) became the first Democrat officeholder to publicly call on Biden to step down as the party’s presidential nominee following his disastrous debate performance last week.
“Biden’s poor performance in the debate was not a surprise,” Golden wrote in the Bangor Daily News. “It also didn’t rattle me as it has others, because the outcome of this election has been clear to me for months: While I don’t plan to vote for him, Donald Trump is going to win. And I’m OK with that.”
“Democrats’ post-debate hand-wringing is based on the idea that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy,”…
