Thursday’s Campaign Round-Up, 11.6.25: Maine’s Jared Golden joins the retirement parade Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

Pointing to “the plain nastiness” of politics and threats he has faced, Representative Jared Golden of Maine will retire instead of trying to keep the reddest House seat held by a Democrat.

Rep. Jared Golden, whose district is the most pro-Trump in the country represented by a Democrat, says he’s “grown tired of the increasing incivility and plain nastiness” in politics.

Democratic congressman Jared Golden has announced his retirement, saying he will not be running for re-election in his battleground Maine district. The 43-year-old cited political violence and extreme polarisation in the US as reasons why he is leaving office,