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Cambridge, MD 21613-
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Andy Harris: The Doctor Who Still Shows Up for Maryland’s First District
Maryland’s First Congressional District is not a theory. It is Harford County entire, Cecil, the nine counties of the Eastern Shore, and a slice of Baltimore County. It is farms, the Bay, Aberdeen Proving Ground, volunteer firehouses, and households that still notice when Washington spends like the money is imaginary. For fifteen years the man holding that seat has been Dr. Andy Harris. On November 3 he is asking to keep it.
The résumé is not a slogan. It is a working life.
Who he is
Andrew Peter Harris was born January 25, 1957, in Brooklyn, the son of immigrants who fled communist Eastern Europe after the Second World War. His father, Zoltán, was a Hungarian anesthesiologist who came to the United States in 1950. His mother, Irene, was born in Poland. That household is the origin story he still tells: a country that takes in people who fled tyranny, and a son who treats that country as something you serve, not something you lecture.
He came to Baltimore for Johns Hopkins and stayed. Bachelor of Science in 1977. M.D. in 1980. Master of Health Science in health policy and management in 1995. He lived in a one-room apartment and worked nights as a blood-bank technician to help pay the bill. He practiced as an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins for nearly three decades, taught as an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and served as chief of obstetric anesthesiology. He helped thousands of women through labor and delivery. When he is not in Washington he has still practiced at Memorial Hospital in Easton. Congress has plenty of lawyers. It has one anesthesiologist from Maryland’s First.
In 1988, during the Reagan years, the Naval Reserve needed anesthesiologists. Harris volunteered for the Navy Medical Corps, founded and commanded the Johns Hopkins Naval Reserve Medical Unit, and in 1990 was called to active duty for Desert Shield and Desert Storm. His unit treated active-duty personnel, veterans, and returning POWs at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He left the Reserve as a Commander.
Unhappy with Annapolis, he ran for the Maryland Senate in 1998 as a political newcomer and beat an incumbent in the Republican primary. He served twelve years — first District 9 in Baltimore County, then District 7 covering parts of Baltimore and Harford — and kept seeing patients. That is the old idea of a citizen legislature: you do the job and you still have a job. He was minority whip. The Maryland Taxpayers Association named him a Hero of the Taxpayer.
In 2008 he lost a House race to Democrat Frank Kratovil. In 2010 he won the rematch. He has held Maryland’s 1st District ever since. He is the only Republican in the state’s eight-member House delegation. On June 23, 2026, he won his primary with 79.7 percent. The general election is November 3 against Democrat Dan Schwartz.
What he does in Washington
Seniority is not a decoration. Harris sits on Appropriations — the committee that actually writes the checks. He chairs the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration subcommittee. That is the Farm Bill, rural hospitals, food safety, and the USDA programs that keep Shore and Harford agriculture from being an afterthought in a capital that talks as if food comes from a warehouse. He also sits on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. A physician on the health-spending panel is not a coincidence. It is the point.
In September 2024 his colleagues elected him chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. That caucus exists to force the spending fight that polite Washington would rather skip. Combined with an Appropriations subcommittee gavel, it is unusual leverage for a member from a state that otherwise sends Democrats. Harris uses it the way a district like this one needs it used: against open-ended budgets, for a secured border, and for the constitutional limits that do not expire when the other party holds the White House.
He has co-chaired the Congressional Chesapeake Bay Watershed Caucus and fought to keep Bay program funding from being treated as optional line-item filler. The First District lives on that water — watermen, recreation, property, and the farms that drain toward it. He has backed processing capacity for invasive blue catfish so the Bay’s native crab and fish stocks are not eaten out from under the people who work them. He has requested district projects the old-fashioned way: water and sewer, dredging, a medical center, a firehouse — the unglamorous list a member files when he still remembers who pays him.
Why Harford should vote for him
Harford is all in this district. Bel Air, Aberdeen, Edgewood, Havre de Grace, Jarrettsville, and the farms north of the development envelope do not get a second congressman if this one is replaced by a generic Annapolis-Washington Democrat. They get a freshman who will sit at the back of a minority party’s room while the state’s other seven members vote as a bloc.
Harris already knows the county from the State Senate years. He already knows APG, the Bay, the grain and poultry economy, and the difference between a press release about “rural Maryland” and a subcommittee that funds it. He already has the gavel and the caucus chair. You do not throw that away for a challenger who has never held the seat and has never written an appropriations bill.
The case is simple.
He is a doctor who kept practicing. That is not branding. It is a man who still understands hospitals, liability, rural access, and the difference between a license and a slogan.
He is a Navy commander who showed up when the unit was called. Veterans in this district do not need a lecture on service. They need a member who has worn the uniform and still answers the office phone.
He is a fiscal conservative in a state delegation that is not. Maryland’s federal voice is otherwise one party. The First District is the counterweight. If you want someone in the room when the spending bills are written — and someone willing to say no — this is the seat that provides it.
He treats agriculture and the Bay as the economy they are, not as scenery. Harford’s remaining farmland and the Shore’s working water are the same fight: keep the land producing, keep the water living, and stop pretending density and imports will feed the state.
He has won this district seven times after the first win in 2010 because the voters who live here recognized the record. A 79.7 percent primary in 2026 is not a machine. It is a district that already made up its mind.
The other side will call him hardline. That is the tell. In a Maryland that taxes, regulates, and lectures from Annapolis, the First District sent a physician-reservist-senator to Washington to be exactly that: hard to spend on, hard to redraw, and hard to ignore. Sixteen years in, he still lives part of the year on the Shore and still practices medicine. The Founders’ idea was never a professional class that never goes home. It was a neighbor with a trade who goes to the capital and comes back.
Vote Andy Harris for the United States House of Representatives.
Dan Schwartz
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Dan Schwartz: A D.C. Résumé Asking Maryland’s First to Fire Its Only Republican
Maryland’s First Congressional District is Harford entire, Cecil, the nine counties of the Eastern Shore, and a slice of Baltimore County. It is farms, the Bay, Aberdeen Proving Ground, volunteer fire companies, and households that already know what Annapolis and Washington sound like when they lecture. For fifteen years the man holding the seat has been Dr. Andy Harris. The Democrat asking Harford to fire him is Dan Schwartz.
He is not from here. He has never held office. The machine that cannot stand a Republican anywhere in the Maryland map is asking you to treat that as a qualification.
Who he is
Daniel Schwartz was born in New York City. He grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Hall High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from George Washington University in 2010. He interned on the Hill for Chris Murphy — then a freshman Connecticut congressman, now a senator. He is Jewish. He is 38 on Election Day. He is married to Megan. They have two sons, Henry and Eddie. They live in Bellevue / Royal Oak in Talbot County.
He did not grow up on the Shore. He did not grow up in Harford. A primary opponent’s own fact sheet put the move to Talbot at 2021. That is a five-year residency asking for a nine-county congressional district that Harris has represented since 2011.
From 2011 until he quit in April 2025 to run, Schwartz worked in Washington for the Conference of State Bank Supervisors — CSBS. Titles climbed: policy development, policy and supervision, then senior director of nonbank supervision and enforcement. CSBS is not a neighborhood credit union. It is the national association of state bank regulators. It operates NMLS, the nationwide licensing system for mortgage and nonbank finance. Its latest public filings show on the order of $97 million in annual revenue and more than $240 million in assets. Schwartz’s job was coordinating state enforcement against money transmitters and payment firms — Cash App among the names he likes to drop — and helping fifty state agencies talk to Treasury, the banking agencies, and the CFPB.
That is a real résumé. It is also a Beltway résumé. Fourteen years as staff at a D.C. trade association of regulators is not farming Talbot, not working APG, not sitting a Harford council, and not treating patients in Easton. It is the career of a man who learned Washington from the inside and then bought a Shore address.
He has never been elected to anything. He said so himself on the Baltimore
Sun questionnaire.
How he got on the ballot
Four Democrats filed. On June 23, 2026, Schwartz took 19,821 votes — 46.3 percent. Salisbury’s Randi White took 15,723 — 36.7 percent. Victor Guidice and George Walish split the rest. Total Democratic primary turnout in the district: 42,824. He did not win a majority of his own party. He won a plurality, with a lift in home-county Talbot, and the Associated Press called it the next morning.
Then the invitations arrived. Governor Wes Moore endorsed him. So did Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Rep. Sarah Elfreth, and House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk. Former Republican-turned-independent Shore congressman Wayne Gilchrest is on the campaign site too. That is not a grassroots draft. That is the statewide Democratic bench deciding the First District should stop sending a Republican.
Cook Political Report, Decision Desk, Inside Elections, and Sabato all rate the seat Solid or Safe Republican. Schwartz has said he can beat Harris on the current lines anyway. Confidence is free. A 46 percent primary in a district this Republican is not a wave.
The money tells the same story. FEC coverage through June 30, 2026, shows Dan Schwartz for Congress raising about $695,000 and spending about $623,000, with roughly $73,000 cash on hand and more than $34,000 still owed. Midsummer reporting had Harris near $2.1 million raised in the cycle and about $1.7 million cash. Schwartz loaned his committee $13,000 and has been paying some of it back. He is not broke. He is also not funded like a man about to flip a Safe Republican seat without a map change.
What he wants to do
Read his own pages and questionnaires. Do not take the “different kind of Democrat” line on faith.
He wants Roe v. Wade written into federal statute so the rest of the country matches Maryland abortion law. In other words he is in favor of murdering children in the womb.
God is not on his side.
He wants the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau restaffed and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division rebuilt. He wants executive orders he calls hollowings of the Civil Rights Act reversed. He wants the Voting Rights Act protected and partisan gerrymandering banned — after Maryland Democrats spent a generation drawing maps to erase this very seat.
He wants Trump-era tariffs unwound. He wants the “permanent tax cuts for billionaires” reversed. He wants Medicaid, Medicare, long-term care, SNAP, and community grants restored from cuts he attributes to Harris and the administration. He cites that one in four people in MD-01 rely on Medicaid. He wants a public option in the ACA marketplace. He wants the federal minimum wage raised. He wants wage theft made a crime.
He wants members of Congress and their families banned from trading equities, options, and crypto. He wants presidential pardon power reined in. He wants ICE and CBP overhauled; he has said ICE should not have a larger budget than the Marine Corps, and that current enforcement is “intentionally cruel.”
On the Sun form he called Harris’s tariff support a tax on farmers and families. On a Banner form, asked what Congress is missing, he answered: “Cojones.” On a Salisbury stage in June 2025 he called Harris “our lousy excuse for a congressman.” He has spoken at No Kings rallies — Salisbury on June 14, 2025, with the campaign posting the full remarks; later he advertised stops in North East and Aberdeen. Those are not farm-bureau dinners. They are the organized anti-Trump protest circuit.
He will tell you Democrats have “overregulated” financial services and that he is the moderate who can talk to Mississippi. That is the line he uses when he needs to sound Shore. The rest of the platform is standard national Democratic inventory: restore the agencies, recodify Roe, unwind the tax and tariff fights, grow the welfare state, shrink immigration enforcement. A man who spent his adult life inside the regulatory complex is not a surprise author of that list.
Why Harford should not vote for him
First: he is a recent arrival with a Washington career asking a conservative district to fire the only Republican Maryland sends to the House. Five years in Talbot after New York, Connecticut, and fourteen years at CSBS is not “the neighbor.” It is a relocation timed to a campaign.
Second: he has never governed. No council. No General Assembly. No mayor’s desk. No military command. No hospital. The skill he advertises — getting fifty state agencies to sign the same enforcement letter — is staff work. Congress is votes, committees, and a district that will call when the farm bill, APG, or the Bay line item moves. Harris already chairs an Appropriations agriculture subcommittee and the Freedom Caucus. Schwartz would be a freshman Democrat in a delegation that already has seven of those.
Third: the endorsements are the tell. Moore, Raskin, Van Hollen, Peña-Melnyk. The same apparatus that wants this district redrawn so Maryland’s House map is eight blue squares. Schwartz says he can win on the present lines. The people backing him have spent years trying to erase those lines. Believe the backers.
Fourth: the protest circuit is the tell. A candidate who needs “concerned conservatives” does not headliner No Kings and call the sitting member a lousy excuse. He is running as the Resistance with a Shore ZIP code.
Fifth: the money and the rating. Safe Republican. Seventy-three thousand dollars in the bank in midsummer against an incumbent with a seven-figure war chest and fifteen years of constituent casework. Primary plurality, not a mandate. That is not a wave. It is a résumé in search of a map.
Sixth: “regular guy” is branding. Regular guys in this district drive to the plant, the farm, the firehouse, or the clinic. Schwartz’s regular was I Street in Northwest Washington, a $97 million regulators’ association, and an internship for Chris Murphy. CSBS does real work. It is not a waterman’s co-op. Do not let the Bellevue postcard confuse the résumé.
Seventh: His support of Roe v. Wade brands him as a murderer in the eyes of all God-fearing Christians.
The First District does not owe the Democratic bench a ninth try at Andy Harris. It does not owe a D.C. policy director a gavel he has never earned. Harris is a Hopkins physician, a Navy commander, a former state senator from this region, and the only member of the Maryland House delegation who will vote no when Annapolis wants every federal lever pulled left. Schwartz is what you get when that fact offends the people who run the rest of the state: a polished staffer, a new address, a protest calendar, and a promise that this time the First will finally behave.
Vote no.
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