BALTIMORE, Md. (DC News Now) — Both Democrat Angela Alsobrooks and Republican Larry Hogan are getting out their vote for the Tuesday general election to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.).
It has been decades since Maryland sent a Republican to the U.S. Senate.
Alsobrooks sees it as “a competitive race.”
“We’re working all they way through Election Day. The stakes are high,” she said.
It’s high enough that Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson was on the stump for Alsobrooks the final weekend before Election Day.
“People have got to get out to vote,” Ferguson said. “I am so excited for the possibility that Angela Alsobrooks will be the U.S. Senator from Maryland.”
Nadia Brown is a professor of government and gender studies at Georgetown University and has been following the race closely.
“Larry Hogan has been putting up a good fight,” Brown said. “I think primarily because he was such a beloved governor of this state.”
Hogan told a crowd of utility contractors at a weekend bull roast in Baltimore during last weekend that he’s “always been focused on bringing people together” while “trying to avoid the extremes of either party.”
“People have been saying we’re down and are counting us out, but I’ve always been the underdog,” he said. “I’ve always beaten the odds.”
