He could still lose in 2018 with a president trump and a strong challenger
The only real Democratic bench here is Martin O'Malley, Anthony Brown, Ken Ulman, John Sarbane, Mark Shriver, and the Mosbys.
There have been rumblings about John Delaney (MD-06) running in 2018. He could self fund too.
"Rumblings" lol. Everyone knows Delaney is running, he's already commissioned polls, lol.
Your bench: O'Malley is not ever running for anything again, Brown is gonna be in Congress, Ulman maybe, Sarbanes is staying in congress, Shriver lol no, Mosbys are staying in Bmore.
Mizeur is very likely to run and has a lot of good will (everyone believes we'd have beat Hogan with her as the nominee). Cummings could run, but prolly won't, same for Dutch.
Why won't O'Malley run for something? As for Brown, he might just be trying to get more recognition and experience. Sarbanes is ambitious, and if the Democratic primary for Senate in 2018 is crowded, he might jump for Governor. Shriver has ambitions on political office. The Mosbys should consider one of them running for Attorney General.
He lost the last of his popular mandate by running for president.