Who is Chris Burnett, GOP candidate for Maryland’s most competitive district?

After spending 22 years in the military, earning three master’s degrees, and raising four children, Marine veteran Chris Burnett told the Washington Examiner he was ready to “just comfortably exist.”

But frustrations about the decline of the middle class in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District, which he said has been spurred by a “series of millionaires… playing national politics at the expense of the residents,” drove him to launch a campaign challenging Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-MD). 

Burnett, during a phone interview, described a sweeping vision for the district, one that seeks to target a culture of “hyper taxation” and “overregulation,” he says, has twisted energy, artificial intelligence, data center, and education policies against residents and stifled the “entrepreneurial spirit” the candidate believes is needed to power