{"id":1963638,"date":"2023-07-03T19:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T23:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-republican-dan-cox-aims-to-flip-house-seat-after-governorship-loss\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T19:21:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T23:21:03","slug":"maryland-republican-dan-cox-aims-to-flip-house-seat-after-governorship-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-republican-dan-cox-aims-to-flip-house-seat-after-governorship-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Republican Dan Cox seeks to win House seat following gubernatorial defeat."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaryland-republican-dan-cox-aims-to-flip-house-seat-after-governorship-loss%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1963638&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0703\/965e697d-0532-4709-ac66-6b229a014927\/audio.mp3?length=1902861&#038;duration=159\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Former Maryland Gubernatorial Candidate Aims to Flip District<\/h2>\n<p>Former Maryland gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox has set his sights on turning his state&#8217;s 6th Congressional District from blue to red in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican wasted no time and filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission on July 3.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Maryland&#8217;s 6th District is represented by third-term Rep. David Trone (D-Md.).<\/p>\n<p>In May, Trone announced his intention to vacate the seat and run for Sen. Ben Cardin&#8217;s (D-Md.) Senate seat, as Cardin plans to retire at the end of his current term.<\/p>\n<p>Cox, a former state delegate, gained the endorsement of former President Donald Trump during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-zeldin-announces-2022-campaign-to-unseat-andrew-cuomo-losing-is-not-an-option\/\" title=\"Lee Zeldin Announces 2022 Campaign To Unseat Andrew Cuomo, \u2018Losing Is Not An Option!\u2019\">2022 gubernatorial campaign<\/a>. Despite defeating the more moderate Kelly Schulz in the GOP primary, Cox was ultimately defeated by the state&#8217;s current Democratic Governor, Wes Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his run for governor, Cox also sought Maryland&#8217;s 8th Congressional District seat in 2016. Although he won the primary, he lost the race to Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Cox emerged as a vocal critic of former Republican Governor Larry Hogan&#8217;s policies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fda-head-mask-mandates-should-end-in-wholesale-fashion-officials-need-to-rollback-restrictions-to-keep-integrity\/\" title=\"Former FDA Head: Mask Mandates Should End In \u2018Wholesale Fashion,\u2019 Officials Need To Rollback Restrictions To Keep \u2018Integrity\u2019\">including mask mandates<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/03\/30\/dnr-issues-guidance-on-governor-hogans-stay-at-home-order\/\">stay-at-home orders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in the state&#8217;s General Assembly, Cox even introduced articles of impeachment against Hogan. However, these articles were ultimately rejected by members of his own party.<\/p>\n<p>Although he did not challenge the results of the 2022 election, Cox made a request to the U.S. Supreme Court in January to reverse an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-republican-dan-cox-aims-to-flip-house-seat-after-governorship-loss\/\" title=\"Maryland Republican Dan Cox seeks to win House seat following gubernatorial defeat.\">emergency state court order issued<\/a> before the election. This order suspended parts of Maryland&#8217;s election law that prohibited the early counting of mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Cox argued that the court order violated the integrity of the election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Maryland gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox aims to turn his state&#8217;s 6th Congressional District seat from blue to red in 2024. Cox, a Republican, filed the required paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission on July 3. The district is currently held by Rep. David Trone (D-Md.), who announced his departure in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":1963639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}