Donald Trump didn’t carry the Free State, but he improved his margins here as in the rest of the country. We ask political commentator and Maryland's Republican National Committee representative Nicolee Ambrose, and Jesse Pippy, House Republican whip representing Frederick county, what they’d like Marylanders who didn’t vote for him to know.

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