Rep. David J. Trone (D-Md.), a leading fundraiser for Democratic candidates and causes before being elected in 2018, is hosting a virtual fundraising event Thursday evening for Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.), a fellow freshman.
Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.)
McBath, who became a gun control activist after her 17-year-old son was shot dead in 2012, is in a tough race in a suburban Atlanta district that voted for President Trump in 2016. She faces a rematch with ex-Rep. Karen Handel (R), a former Georgia secretary of State, whom she ousted by 1 point in 2018. Before McBath’s victory, the 6th District seat had been in Republican hands for several years.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates McBath’s race as a tossup.
McBath and Trone will be joined at the fundraiser by Shannon Watts, founder of the gun control group Moms Demand Action, and Baltimore City Council President Brandon M. Scott, the Democratic nominee for mayor.
Trone and McBath serve together on the House Education and Labor Committee.
(Disclosure: The David and June Trone Family Foundation is a financial supporter of Maryland Matters.)
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Founding Editor Josh Kurtz is a veteran chronicler of Maryland politics and government. He began covering the State House in 1995 for The Gazette newspapers, and has been writing about state and local politics ever since. He was an editor at Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, for eight years, and for eight years was the editor of E&E Daily, which covers energy and environmental policy on Capitol Hill. For 6 1/2 years Kurtz wrote a weekly column on state politics for Center Maryland and has written for several other Maryland publications as well. Kurtz regularly gives speeches and appears on TV and radio shows to discuss Maryland politics.
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