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U.S. House · Updated Oct 9

Maryland's 8th District

Jamie Raskin win chance

>99%

Typical margin: Raskin by 27.5

Democrat

Jamie Raskin 100%Cheryl Riley 0%

Who's running

Jamie RaskinDemocrat · Incumbent
Cheryl RileyRepublican

The numbers behind it

Cook Political ReportAs of Sep 23, 2026Solid D
Money raisedFEC, through Jun 30, 2026Raskin $7.4MRiley $17K
Campaign money

Jamie Raskin

Raised $7.4M · $7.9M cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Cheryl Riley

Raised $17K · $2K cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Our model counts the money gap as worth 1.5 points to Jamie Raskin. Even a 10× gap is worth at most 1.5.

Other filers in this race raised $16K in total.

Candidates' own committees only, from fec.gov. Third-quarter reports are due Oct 15.

How the numbers moved
  1. Sep 23Cook Political Report: Solid DCook Political Report
  2. Jun 30Cheryl Riley had raised $17KFEC filing
  3. Jun 30Jamie Raskin had raised $7.4MFEC filing
How we got this number

We blend the polling average (when there is one) with the race's fundamentals: past results, incumbency, the national mood and the money. Then we play the election out 40,000 times, with polling misses that move every race together, and count how often each side wins.

90% of the model's 40,000 simulated elections land between D+15.5 and D+39.9.

No public polls yet, so this forecast rests on the fundamentals alone, with a wider range.

Our method ›