Former state Delegate Dan Cox won the Republican primary for Maryland governor on June 23.
Cox defeated former state retired banker Ed Hale and six other candidates.
He will face incumbent Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, in the Nov. 3 election in what is a rematch of 2022, when Moore won by more than 32 percentage points.
If Cox wins in November, he would likely need to govern alongside the legislature’s Democratic supermajority.
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican who served two terms, often clashed with Democratic lawmakers, which resulted in many of his policy goals being diluted or blocked altogether.
President Donald Trump did not endorse a candidate in the Republican primary, though he endorsed Cox in 2022….