{"id":16565,"date":"2025-12-11T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/david-trone-launches-primary-bid-for-old-house-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:01:52","slug":"david-trone-launches-primary-bid-for-old-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/david-trone-launches-primary-bid-for-old-house-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"David Trone launches primary bid for old House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Maryland Democrat David Trone, a former three-term House lawmaker who left his seat to launch an ill-fated Senate run in 2024, is making a play for his old job in a primary challenge against first-term Rep. April McClain Delaney, he announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The battle \u2014 in a blue-leaning district Republicans have targeted in the past \u2014 could set up an extraordinarily expensive primary between Trone and Delaney, both of whom have multimillion-dollar fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>Trone hopes his opposition to President Donald Trump will help drive his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching Trump and Republicans\u2019 assault on our democracy \u2014 weaponizing the government and tearing apart families \u2014 is intolerable and goes against everything we stand for,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cOur fundamental freedoms are being dismantled piece by piece. The people of Maryland\u2019s 6th District need a fighter who will stand up against these attacks every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wealthy wine magnate has self-funded his runs for office before. Trone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/05\/04\/total-wine-trone-maryland-senate-campaign-00095218\" target=\"_blank\">spent some $17 million in his successful 2018 House campaign<\/a>. He then parted ways with more than $60 million in the 2024 Senate primary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/14\/angela-alsobrooks-wins-messy-democratic-senate-primary-in-maryland-00158054\" target=\"_blank\">which he lost by more than 10 points to then-Prince George\u2019s County Executive<\/a> Angela Alsobrooks.<\/p>\n<p>But McClain Delaney, the wife of former House lawmaker and onetime presidential candidate John Delaney, isn\u2019t ready to go quietly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Trone thinks I should \u2018step aside\u2019 so he can have his old office back after he abandoned the district to run and lose for Senate,\u201d she said in a statement Thursday. \u201cHe has the arrogance of a Trump. But not so fast. On behalf of my district, I stand up to bullies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Democrat David Trone, a former three-term House lawmaker who left his seat to launch an ill-fated Senate run in 2024, is making a play for his old job in a primary challenge against first-term Rep. April McClain Delaney, he announced Thursday. The battle \u2014 in a blue-leaning district Republicans have targeted in the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}