Maine state Auditor Mathew Dunlap announced a primary challenge Monday against Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, telling Salon he was motivated by Golden’s Republican-friendly brand of politics and recent vote for a GOP funding bill that would cause Americans’ health care costs to skyrocket.

Golden, who represents Maine’s sprawling 2nd Congressional District, is well known as one of the most conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives. Ahead of the 2024 election, Golden said that he expected President Donald Trump to win and that he was “OK with that.”

“There’s bad, and even worse. Jared Golden and Paul LePage. Golden voted against unemployment benefits, child tax credits and more affordable healthcare,” an ad announcing Dunlap’s bid said.

More recently, he was the lone Democrat in

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