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Maryland's 8th District

Jamie Raskin (D)vsCheryl Riley (R)

incumbent running · Lean: D+30 · Incumbent: Jamie Raskin (D)

99 in 100

Jamie Raskin favored>99%

All but certain for Jamie Raskin: a 100 percent chance of winning. No public polls yet.

  • Seat:Incumbent running
  • Lean:D+30
  • Incumbent:Jamie Raskin (D)
  • District:8 of 8 in Maryland
  • Odds:Raskin >99%
  • Margin:Raskin +66.9, give or take 6.2
  • Polls:none yet, running on the fundamentals
  • Generic ballot:D+8.2
  • T-minus:16 days

▸ Margin // Uncertainty

Raskin +66.9

The model's best guess at the final margin, give or take 6.2 points. Polls have missed by more than that before.

Projected margin
Raskin +66.9
Uncertainty
6.2 points, one standard deviation
Likely range
Raskin +59.0 to Raskin +74.8 (80 percent)
Poll average
No polls
Starting point
Raskin +66.9 before any polls

Margins read Democrat minus Republican: Raskin ahead is positive, Riley ahead is negative.

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▸ Polls // None yet

No public polls here. The number comes from the district lean (D+30, worth 52.2 points to the Democrat), the incumbent (Jamie Raskin, running again, worth 4.8 points), and the national environment (generic ballot D+8.2, which the model reads as a 9.9 point Democratic tilt after discounting it). Together they give a projected margin of Raskin +66.9 with an uncertainty of 6.2 points.

▸ Race file // The facts

The seat
Jamie Raskin (D), running for another term.
On the ballot
Jamie Raskin (D, incumbent) vs Cheryl Riley (R)
Last time
2024: Democrat 76.8, Republican 20.5. Raskin by 56.3.
President
2024, statewide: Trump 34.1, Harris 62.6. Harris by 28.5.
Lean
D+30 by the Cook partisan index

Facts from Ballotpedia and Wikipedia, in our words. The district on Ballotpedia ↗

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