The candidates for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat packed their final full day of campaigning with events and stops to persuade voters, thank volunteers and rally supporters. On Tuesday, they’ll find out who wins.
The shift likely has major implications on who is nominated in future elections as more voters opt out of participating in closed primaries and partisans gain power.
All told, between early votes and returned mail ballots, more than 1.56 million of the state’s 4.2 million voters have already voted for a turnout of 37%.
Maryland’s U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, the new chair of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, is seen in a video offering support for a legally questionable plot to award electoral votes in North Carolina to Republican Donald Trump due to disruptions to voting caused by Hurricane Helene.
Another Trump presidency could come with cuts to federal jobs in the state, questions over funding for key transportation projects, less cooperation on preventing gun violence and uncertain effects on the state’s budget.
A prominent “donate” button on the Maryland’s Future webpage goes directly to a fundraising page for Hogan’s campaign committee, which a Montgomery County woman argues violates the law.
The campaigns of Angela Alsobrooks and Larry Hogan and super PACs have combined to raise almost $50 million to spend on Maryland’s nationally watched Senate race.
Maryland’s U.S. Senate candidates Angela Alsobrooks and Larry Hogan didn’t tread much new ground in their debate Thursday, but we did learn a few things.
Both candidates used the debate as a chance to promote their records while arguing the other is the poor choice for Marylanders in a hyper-partisan political environment.
Speaking at The Baltimore Banner’s iMPACT Maryland event, Moore said he didn’t do the best job explaining what it meant for the state and the baseball team to sign a memorandum of understanding — news that was flashed on the ballpark video board in the middle of a game.
The two campaigns and their supporters are taking different strategies in a race that could be as close as a dead heat between Angela Alsobrooks and Larry Hogan.