National politics

Grab a drink, enjoy happy hour prices and watch the voting results trickle in at these election night parties

Columnists being what they are, I’ve got some predictions. And a wish that the choices voters make will lead us to a better place as a country.

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.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump made their final pitches to voters Monday in the same part of Pennsylvania at roughly the same time, spending the last full day of the presidential campaign in a state that could make or break their chances.

In a deeply divided nation, the election is a true toss-up between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.

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.

For decades, York County, Pennsylvania, has been a place where Baltimore area government employees live. It's more conservative than the three counties that it touches in Maryland, and now plays a role in the presidential election.

Signs point to large voter turnout by youths this election. But will they actually vote?

We’ve combed social media profiles, watched television appearances and read interviews in other publications to tell you how celebrities with Maryland ties will vote this election cycle.

Many of the plans referenced under Project 2025 come from a book titled, “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.” We read through it to see how it could affect Maryland.

More Democrats cast ballots in early voting this year, but a higher share of registered Republicans turned out, a Banner analysis of early voting data found.

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%.

Even though U.S. Small Business Administration funds are depleted, requests for financial help from those affected by the Key Bridge disaster continue to roll in, including 500 new applications in the last month.

In conversations with undecided voters across Maryland, I heard plenty of reasons for being unable to chose Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. At this point, it sounds like willful indecision.

Former president Barack Obama dropped in at a phone bank for Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks on Thursday. He brought Halloween cookies and stressed the importance of electing Democrats like Alsobrooks to support the agenda of Kamala Harris.

The letter come with this in bold: “Remember, who you vote for is private, but whether or not you voted is public record.”

High property values and relative population density have given the town an outsized importance in the county’s economic picture.

Democrats currently hold a 51-49 Senate advantage, including independent senators who caucus with Democrats. And Democrats are defending 23 of the 33 Senate seats on the ballot around the country this November.

With less than one week to go before Election Day, Democrat Angela Alsobrooks and Republican Larry Hogan are crisscrossing the state looking for voters in the race for the United States Senate.

With 65.2 million people, making up 19.5% of the total population, Latines could be an influential voting block this election.