Green Party Campaign Reacts to Primary Election Results

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 24, 2026

CONTACT: Andy Ellis
andy@gogreen2026.com

BALTIMORE — Democratic Party voters nominated Governor Wes Moore and Lt. Governor Aruna Miller to seek a second term. Meanwhile, Republicans nominated Dan Cox and Rob Krop.

Green Party candidate for Governor Andy Ellis said of Cox winning the Republican nomination:

"The Republican Party seems hell-bent on repeating the mistakes from the 2022 election. Dan Cox did so badly in 2022 that the Green candidate was closer to Cox than Cox was to Moore," Ellis said. Cox lost to Moore by more than 32 percentage points in 2022, the worst performance by a Republican since 1986. "Wes Moore has disappointed a lot of people who supported him in 2022, and Dan Cox still has politics most Marylanders reject. No one needs to worry that a vote for me helps Cox win. If we are redoing the last election again, I think we will do very well."

Ellis and Lt. Governor candidate Owen Silverman Andrews are seeking the Green Party nomination. Maryland does not run a primary for the Green Party. Under state law, the taxpayer-funded primary elections are reserved for the two "principal" parties, so the Green Party will conduct its own party-run nominating process July 8th–22nd to select its candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor.

"We are glad the Democrats and Republicans have picked their candidates, and I look forward to seeing them on the debate stage and the campaign trail," Ellis said. "Voters across the state are angry with business-as-usual politics and are looking for something better."

Andy Ellis and Owen Silverman Andrews are seeking the nomination of the Green Party for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. More information available at GoGreen2026.com.