Jared Golden: “I said, well, sure, this is an easy one.”

It’s about protecting the working-class communities those men and women support. In my district, lobster fishing is the backbone of towns up and down the coast.

Do we need to eat avocados?

There’s almost nothing about this bill that I’m going [to] have a hard time explaining to the district. This is a giant tax giveaway to wealthy people. Everyone fucking knows it.

Mr. LePage and his Democratic challenger, Matt Dunlap, were a far cry from being standard bearers of the generations that will inherit the legacy of today’s Congress.