Mileah Kromer, a political science professor at Goucher College, said there is an “almost impossible path” to victory for Cox — who called Vice President Mike Pence a “traitor” on Jan. 6, 2021, on Twitter (he later expressed regret for his choice of words) — in a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 2 to 1. Kromer, who conducts polling, said that none of the Goucher surveys show Trump as a popular figure among Democrats or independents in Maryland.