Tuesday's Democratic primary has become one of the messiest and most contentious this cycle.
Tuesday’s Democratic primary has become one of the messiest and most contentious this cycle.05/13/2024 05:48 PM EDTThe threat of Republicans snatching a Senate seat in a deep-blue state has Democrats on edge.David Trone
In a typical election cycle, the Democratic nominee would cruise to victory in Maryland, where Democrats hold a 2-to-1 voter registration advantage. But the nominee this year will likely face off against former Gov. Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican who is arguably the state’s most popular figure. in state history by dumping some $55 million of his personal fortune into the primary, much of it on TV ads that began blanketing the state more than a year before the primary election.
, though Alsobrooks’ campaign maintains it has surged in the closing weeks. Will her late push be enough to overcome Trone’s ads running on repeat in the state?Race and gender were always important in the contest between a white man and a Black woman. And the closing stretch of the primary has veered even harder into issues of race.
Trone later inflamed racial tensions when he questioned Alsobrooks’ qualifications for Senate in an attack ad featuring Black officials from Alsobrooks’ Prince George’s County. One suggested she was not ready to make a jump to a statewide federal position.
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