April McClain Delaney

The Democratic primary for a House seat in Maryland is shaping up to be one of the most expensive on record.

The race pitted incumbent April McClain Delaney against David Trone. Delany won the seat when Trone ran for Senate in 2024.

He lost that race to Angela Alsobrooks.

Now Trone wants his old District 6 seat back, which covers Alleghany, Frederick, and Washington Counties, along with portions of Northwestern Montgomery County.

"So many people are fearful, they have lost their jobs," this is not a time when there's certainty," McClain Delaney said. "I’m trying to deliver for my district and mitigate against the tsunami of cuts coming against them and if you really want to fight this administration, I don’t think it’s a good idea to fight one another."

"We have to fight Trump with every ounce of our strength but at the end of the day we have to get something done," Trone said.

The fight is on between the two, with each spending millions of their own money to make their case to voters.

Campaign finance reports show the CEO of Total Wine loaned Trone's campaign $25 million in the last two months.

McClain Delany loaned hers $5 million this cycle.

"I wish politics didn’t cost what it cost what it cost, but you have to get out to who you are, why you’re there," Trone said.

He believes his business acumen is his strength. He also accused McClain Delany of voting too much with the Trump administration.

She fired back.

"He talks about the 22% that I’ve voted with MAGA," Delany said. "Many of the votes are very fly in night things that every one votes on including AOC from a post office naming to something for veterans."

In touting her record, Delany said she has helped bring $700 million in federal funding to her district to support infrastructure and innovation.

She also talked about the money she helped secure for Alleghany County after last year's historic floods.

"I’ve spent 30 years in public, private, non-profit," she said. "I was deputy secretary at commerce. As a woman, I’ve done a lot of stakeholder engagement my whole life, I’ve driven diverse stakeholders to get things done and that has really helped me over the past 18 months."

"We need people in Congress who are not professional politicians. They need to have done something before they got there,"Trone said.

7News will be tracking the primary race Tuesday night.