McClain Delaney defeats Trone in Democratic primary for 6th Congressional District
U.S. Rep. April McClain Delaney stopped businessman David Trone’s attempt to win back the seat he previously held representing parts of Montgomery County and Western Maryland.
McClain Delaney, who will face the Republican nominee Robin Ficker in November, won the expensive and contentious Maryland 6th District Democratic primary Tuesday by a narrow margin. The Associated Press called the Democratic primary race just after 11:30 p.m.
Though it’s Maryland’s purplest House district, Democrats have comfortably won the seat over the past decade, and in 2026 the congressional handicappers consider it safely Democratic, largely thanks to an increasingly Democratic population in Frederick County.
The Democratic front-runners’ deep pockets allowed them to blast their messages across airwaves and in mailers at a time when affordability is top of mind for voters.
McClain Delaney was joined at an election night party at the Gaithersburg Holiday Inn by her husband John Delaney, who once held the 6t…