In Maryland’s race for the U.S. Senate, much of the focus has been on how the winning candidate — either Democrat Angela Alsobrooks or Republican Larry Hogan — could tip the balance of power to their party.

With that would come a different agenda of priorities from the party in power. Democrats likely would put forward legislation to protect abortion care, limit gun ownership and promote public education. Republicans, meanwhile, seek to ban abortion, cut taxes and crack down on illegal immigration.

But when it comes down to individual votes on specific bills, how would each candidate vote? What would it look like to have a Sen. Alsobrooks or Sen. Hogan representing Maryland?

Here’s a breakdown of 10 key issues and what the two candidates are saying about their positions.

Access to reproductive healthcare

Alsobrooks has said she will co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would reinstate a nationwide right to abortion care, essentially codifying the former Roe v. Wade decision that the Supreme Court overturned in 2022. She is endorsed by the political arm of Planned Parenthood as well as Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly the NARAL Pro-Choice America).

Hogan, who had previously described himself as personally opposed to abortion, has staked out a position at odds with many in his party, saying he would protect legal abortion. He’s offered support for the Reproductive Freedom for All Act, a bipartisan bill that would legalize abortion through 26 weeks of a pregnancy. Democrats argue, though, that Hogan would contribute to a Republican majority that would seek to further restrict or ban abortion, even if he might not vote for a ban himself.

As governor, Hogan vetoed measures broadening the range of health professionals who can provide abortion care and requiring more insurance coverage; both vetoes were overturned by lawmakers. He also held back money set aside to train providers, which the next governor, Democrat Wes Moore, released on his first full day in office.

Support for Ukraine against Russia

Both Alsobrooks and Hogan have expressed support for Ukraine and criticism for Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin.

Alsobrooks, in responding to The Baltimore Banner’s candidate questionnaire this spring, said she would support U.S. aid to Ukraine.

Hogan told MSNBC that he doesn’t understand Republicans who are isolationists or who are “Putin sympathizers.”

Support for Israel and ending the war in Gaza

Hogan worked early on to establish himself as a supporter of Israel, telling an influential Jewish group in March that he is the “pro-Israel champion” Maryland needs: “We want to see the violence come to an end. The way to solve this humanitarian crisis and achieve a ceasefire is for Hamas leaders to immediately release every single one of those hostages. And then they should surrender and be held accountable.”

He has decried antisemitism and blasted protesters in Washington when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited. “There should be no divergence or equivocation when it comes to supporting Israel. I will always be proud to stand with our ally and Maryland’s Jewish community,” Hogan recently posted.

Alsobrooks also has condemned the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, called for a ceasefire in the war, called for the release of hostages held captive and pressed for humanitarian aid.

If elected, Alsobrooks would “work with our allies to push for a two-state solution in which both the Israeli people and the Palestinian people can live peacefully and safely,” according to her campaign.

Funding for rebuilding the Key Bridge

Both Hogan and Alsobrooks have said they’ll work to secure full federal funding to build a new Francis Scott Key Bridge, after a ship smashed into the bridge, sending it collapsing into the Patapsco River this spring.

Shortly after the collapse, Hogan said he called Republican friends on Capitol Hill to urge their support for funding. “I’m going to push as hard as I can,” he told Fox News at the time.

Alsobrooks, too, said it was urgent for Congress to agree to President Joe Biden’s pledge of full federal funding for the project.

Funding for Baltimore’s proposed Red Line

Alsobrooks has said she’ll advocate for federal funding for the Red Line, a proposed east-west light rail line across Baltimore.

Hogan, when he was governor, canceled planning for the Red Line in 2015, forfeiting $900 million the federal government had pledged toward the project. He called it a “wasteful boondoggle.” Congressional Republicans have repeatedly proposed cutting grants and other funding for transit projects.

Protecting health care

Both Alsobrooks and Hogan have signaled support for continuing parts of the Inflation Reduction Act that affect health care, including capping the cost of insulin for people with Medicare and authorizing Medicare to negotiate prices with drug companies.

Alsobrooks says she will “build upon” the Affordable Care Act to “ensure universal health coverage” and drive down health care costs. She wants the federal government to extend an expansion of the Medicaid insurance program under the ACA that 10 states opted out of.

Hogan also said he would defend Medicare from any proposed cuts and would push pharmacy benefit management companies to ensure that patients get all prescription savings that are due to them.

Immigration reforms

Hogan has said that the failure of a bipartisan immigration bill earlier this year inspired him to launch his campaign. Hogan later went to the Texas-Mexico border, where he told Fox News: “The solutions are not complicated. In the Senate, I will fight to make both parties finally put the politics aside and get this done.”

On his website, Hogan says he will support immigration reform that includes “fixing the asylum process, sending more resources to law enforcement on the border with more Customs and Border Protection agents, increasing the number of immigration judges, and dismantling the criminal cartel networks.”

Alsobrooks also pledges to support immigration reform in order to “mend the broken immigration system.” Her website says that would include “creating a pathway to citizenship for those already living and working in the United States.” Alsobrooks touts her efforts as county executive to foster “fair treatment” of immigrants, regardless of their legal status, such as supporting driver’s licenses and in-state tuition rates for those without documentation.

As Prince George’s County executive, Alsobrooks established a policy of notifying immigration authorities when undocumented people are arrested only for violent crimes and gang-related crimes, not minor offenses.

Extending Trump-era tax cuts

Hogan said he supports some of the elements from then-President Donald Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The act cut the corporate tax rate, cut individual tax rates and increased the standard deduction for individuals, and parts of the act are due to expire in 2025. One element that Hogan did not support limits how much an individual can deduct from their income for paying state and local taxes, known as “SALT” — which dinged many high-earning Marylanders with high local taxes.

“Where I may differ is on the SALT stuff. I’m in favor of giving a further break to Maryland businesses and taxpayers,” Hogan told The Baltimore Banner in June.

Alsobrooks said that when the Trump-era tax cuts expire, she’ll prioritize helping families “rather than prioritize tax cuts to massive corporations,” according to her campaign materials.

Supreme Court justices and federal judges

Alsobrooks has made a point in her TV ads and campaign speeches that senators confirm U.S. Supreme Court justices, noting recent decisions unpopular with Democrats, including overturning national protections for abortion access. Maryland voters have “the power to stop Republicans from stripping women of our reproductive rights and confirming extreme justices to the Supreme Court,” Alsobrooks says in a new ad.

She has backed President Joe Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reforms, including term limits for justices, saying the changes are “absolutely necessary.”

Hogan, on his website, says he wants to hold judges and others in the justice system accountable for their role in preventing crime and punishing offenders.

He has also said he will use the same standard as when he selected judges when governor: “Judicial temperance and commitment to the rule of law,” according to his campaign.

Hogan, as a senator, would not have “purity tests on issues,” according to his campaign.

Gun control

Both Alsobrooks and Hogan support reinstating a federal ban on assault weapons.

“It is becoming increasingly apparent that no place is safe from these weapons of war. Not schools. Not churches. Not grocery stores. Not concerts. And not political rallies,” Alsobrooks wrote in The Baltimore Sun after a man with an AR-15 opened fire at a Trump rally, injuring the former president and killing a man in the crowd.

Alsobrooks said she also supports universal background checks, banning bump stocks, allowing lawsuits against gun makers and implementing “red flag” laws that allow petitions to remove guns from people who might harm themselves or others.

Hogan also supports “common sense protections to get guns out of the hands of violent criminals and the mentally ill,” including universal background checks. As governor, Hogan vetoed a requirement for background checks for private sales and transfers of rifles and shotguns. Lawmakers overturned that veto and put that measure into law.

He also noted that he backed Maryland’s “red flag” law, approved in 2018.