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Maryland's 6th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)

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Maryland's 6th Congressional District
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Election details
Filing deadline: January 24, 2020
Primary: June 2, 2020
General: November 3, 2020

Pre-election incumbent:
David Trone (Democratic)
How to vote
Poll times: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Voting in Maryland
Race ratings
Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic
Inside Elections: Solid Democratic
Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
U.S. Senate battlegrounds
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Federal and state primary competitiveness
Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2020
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A Democratic Party primary took place on June 2, 2020, in Maryland's 6th Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the district's general election on November 3, 2020.

Incumbent David Trone advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 6.

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
January 24, 2020
June 2, 2020
November 3, 2020


Heading into the election, the incumbent was David Trone (Democrat), who was first elected in 2018.

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Maryland utilizes a closed primary system. Although parties may hold open primaries, parties generally permit only registered party members to vote in their primaries.[1][2]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Maryland's 6th Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

Election procedure changes in 2020

See also: Changes to election dates, procedures, and administration in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020

Ballotpedia provided comprehensive coverage of how election dates and procedures changed in 2020. While the majority of changes occurred as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, some changes occurred for other reasons.

Maryland modified its primary election process as follows:

  • Election postponements: The primary election was postponed from April 28, 2020, to June 2.
  • Voting procedures: The primary election was conducted largely by mail.

For a full timeline about election modifications made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, click here.


Candidates and election results

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Maryland District 6

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of David Trone
David Trone
 
72.4
 
65,655
Image of Maxwell Bero
Maxwell Bero Candidate Connection
 
27.6
 
25,037

Total votes: 90,692
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Candidate profiles

This section includes candidate profiles created in one of two ways. Either the candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey or Ballotpedia staff created a profile after identifying the candidate as noteworthy.[3] Ballotpedia staff compiled profiles based on campaign websites, advertisements, and public statements.

Image of Maxwell Bero

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Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography "For the last 15 years of my life, I have lived and breathed Maryland District 6. My parents live in Point of Rocks, MD. My wife and I graduated high school here (St. Johns' Catholic Prep, Frederick, MD, class of '08). After graduating from college at the University of Maryland, we moved to Germantown. Following the birth of our daughter, we moved to Clarksburg. For the last 4 years, I have taught high school and coached football and lacrosse in Montgomery Village. The 6th District is my life. I learned the value of hard work and perseverance growing up on a family farm just north of Baltimore, in Harford County. As a teenager, I had to balance school and sports with tending the farm. Waking up before school to feed animals and hurrying home (after football practice in the fall) to work on my to-do list before the sunset was not easy, but it taught me the skill set and work ethic I needed to have to be successful in my life. I hope to bring the same work ethic, passion, and fight to the floor of Congress that I've brought to everything else in my life."


Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.


Healthcare is a human right and should be available to all who seek it. In Congress, I will fight for comprehensive health care for all American citizens.


Climate change is real, and its effects are being felt now. I will fight for the Green New Deal, as well as other comprehensive climate change reforms.


The internet is the single greatest invention ever by humanity. It's time to have someone in Congress who understands it, isn't afraid of it, and will protect consumers and small businesses from large technology coporations.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Maryland District 6 in 2020.


District analysis

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index
See also: FiveThirtyEight's elasticity scores

The 2017 Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+6, meaning that in the previous two presidential elections, this district's results were 6 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Maryland's 6th Congressional District the 166th most Democratic nationally.[4]

FiveThirtyEight's September 2018 elasticity score for states and congressional districts measured "how sensitive it is to changes in the national political environment." This district's elasticity score was 0.97. This means that for every 1 point the national political mood moved toward a party, the district was expected to move 0.97 points toward that party.[5]

Campaign finance

This section contains campaign finance figures from the Federal Election Commission covering all candidate fundraising and spending in this election.[6] It does not include information on fundraising before the current campaign cycle or on spending by satellite groups. The numbers in this section are updated as candidates file new campaign finance reports. Candidates for Congress are required to file financial reports on a quarterly basis, as well as two weeks before any primary, runoff, or general election in which they will be on the ballot and upon the termination of any campaign committees.[7] The chart below contains data from financial reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission.

Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
David Trone Democratic Party $2,965,204 $2,980,058 $93,680 As of December 31, 2020
Maxwell Bero Democratic Party $6,017 $4,336 $1,681 As of June 30, 2020

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2020. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.


General election race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

  • Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
  • Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
  • Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[8]
  • Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[9][10][11]

Race ratings: Maryland's 6th Congressional District election, 2020
Race trackerRace ratings
November 3, 2020October 27, 2020October 20, 2020October 13, 2020
The Cook Political ReportSolid DemocraticSolid DemocraticSolid DemocraticSolid Democratic
Inside Elections with Nathan L. GonzalesSolid DemocraticSolid DemocraticSolid DemocraticSolid Democratic
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal BallSafe DemocraticSafe DemocraticSafe DemocraticSafe Democratic
Note: Ballotpedia updates external race ratings every week throughout the election season.

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. Maryland State Board of Elections Website, "Primary Elections," accessed September 27, 2024
  2. National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed September 27, 2024
  3. Candidate Connection surveys completed before September 26, 2019, were not used to generate candidate profiles. In battleground primaries, Ballotpedia based its selection of noteworthy candidates on polling, fundraising, and noteworthy endorsements. In battleground general elections, all major party candidates and any other candidates with the potential to impact the outcome of the race were included.
  4. Cook Political Report, "Introducing the 2017 Cook Political Report Partisan Voter Index," April 7, 2017
  5. FiveThirtyEight, "Election Update: The Most (And Least) Elastic States And Districts," September 6, 2018
  6. Fundraising by primary candidates can be found on the race's respective primary election page. Fundraising by general election candidates can be found on the race's general election page.
  7. Federal Election Commission, "2022 Quarterly Reports," accessed March 2, 2022
  8. Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
  9. Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
  10. Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
  11. Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018


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