It wasn’t that long ago that it was 4-4. Of course, that included RINO Connie Morella, as well as kind of squishy Republicans in one or two other districts, but it was still 4D-4R. By 2010, it was 6D-2R, then the Dhimmicrap legislature gerrymandered the state to make it 7D-1R. (Check out MD-3 and MD-2.) They rejected a plan in 2011 sponsored by the Maryland GOP and the Fannie Lou Hamer PAC, a black group, that would have created 3 minority-majority districts instead of the present 2.
This time around, Governor Hogan created a Redistricting Commission with equal D-R representation. The commission created a pretty decent, pretty fair map. The legislature threw it out and imposed their own plan instead.
Now, it’s going to have to be done yet again. I hope we can revive the commission’s plan.
This forum loves to crap on any politician that doesn't breathe fire and scream their fealty to Trump or a preferred political position, but there are some decent, hardworking politicians out there outside of that mold who are actually doing good work, and I'd much rather have a politician who is going to agree with my positions 60% of the time and wins elections than one who takes the donations, loses in a landslide, but agrees with my positions 100%.
In Maryland, Larry Hogan is probably about as good as you're going to see in a statewide republican candidate. Andy Harris won't be Governor or Senator in Maryland. Dan Bongino and Kim Klacik should still try to run their races and use their national celebrity to make local outreach and turn perennial D+27 districts (where the dem candidates never have to really try for reelection in the general) into consistent D+8 seats (where the dem candidates might actually have to show up to a debate and spend some of their warchest locally in a wave year), but expecting them to flip solid blue seats in a single election is just genie wishing and a waste of campaign donations.