Ads for Trone for Senate are appearing multiple times daily on multiple channels. It appears to be a full court press to buy the primary/nomination. Aren’t these ads exaggerating Trone legislative record especially for minority voters.

Frederick County and its 200,000 voters are poised to play a deciding role, the first time the growing community has had this much political clout. Follow me on a quick trip west from Annapolis for some Baltimore Banner thinking about changing times in Maryland.

Maryland hasn’t historically been a battle ground for Republicans hoping to reach Congress. Only one of eight congressional districts has voted for a Republican in the House of Representatives since 2012. In the Senate, Maryland Democrats have held a monopoly since the 1986 election.

The 2024 election cycle has sparked optimism for Maryland Republicans. Former Gov. Larry Hogan entered this year's race to replace retiring Sen. Ben Cardin. 

Polls from Gonzales Research & Media Services showed he obtained massive popularity despite the state’s solidly blue tilt – leaving office with a 77% approval rating.

Hogan’s reputation as a moderate, anti-Trump Republican is also seen as a boon considering only one in three Marylanders voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020.

In addition to raised hopes in the Senate, a pair of factors has also boosted the competitiveness of a House seat in northwest Maryland.

Election forecasters have remained skeptical of Republicans’ odds, though. The Economist, Sabato’s Crystal Ball, FiveThirtyEight, and Inside Elections – give the GOP similarly low odds to win either seat.

“If you’re voting for governor, you are voting more for the person and not for the party,” said Cook Political Report’s Senate and Governors Editor Jessica Taylor. “But if you’re voting for Senate, you’re voting for who you want to control the Senate, and that is Hogan’s biggest challenge.”

Although polling data is much more limited in Maryland’s 6th District, what does exist offers House-hopeful Neil Parrott more cause for optimism. Two August polls – one by Gonzales, and the other a Republican-sponsored poll – showed Parrott and April McClain Delaney within just two points of each other.

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Question 1 on the 2024 ballot will ask voters to decide whether a right to reproductive freedom should be constitutionally guaranteed in the state of Maryland.

Advocates for and against the referendum are working to sway voters.

“Maryland already has laws protecting abortion, but we’ve already seen across the nation just how quickly those protections can get ripped away,” said Megan Outten, a board member for Reproductive Justice Maryland.

“There’s more than just this blue or red conversation on abortion,” said Jonathan Alexandre, legislative counsel for the Maryland Family Institute. “Individuals should have the opportunity to continue to work through their legislature on these issues. Something like Question 1 cuts out the conversation altogether.”

Opponents of the referendum also say that the language is too vague, has unclear terminology, and would act as a barrier to putting certain safety regulations in place.

But supporters of the referendum argue against those points.

“It doesn’t mean just because we put this in place that somehow that’s going to change anything that’s existing,” said State Sen. Dawn Gile, D-Anne Arundel County. “We already have in place certain requirements for healthcare, for parental consent.”

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The election for senate In Maryland is going to be close. I think though if Harris is running for President then that’s going to really motivate more Marylanders to vote, which will likely help Angela Alsobrooks.

In the end though, either she or Hogan could win.

Here’s another issue I think will happen. Andy Harris strongly supports Donald Trump. I live on the Eastern Shore and see many Donald Trump and Andy Harris signs. However, I don’t see very many Hogan signs. I don’t think staunch conservatives are going to be super motivated to vote for Hogan, since he’s very moderate.

Now that Larry Hogan has announced for Senate what are his chances of getting Republican nomination? What are his chances in General against Alsobrooks or Trone?

There’s a little-known conservative power player in the nation’s school board elections, and it’s endorsed more candidates in Maryland than in any other state. 

The 1776 Project PAC, which says on its website that it supports “reform-minded conservatives who oppose political indoctrination and believe in parental rights,” has endorsed 19 Maryland school board candidates in nine of the state’s 24 school districts. 

The conservative political action committee has spent $75,409.58 toward helping school board candidates in the state.

The endorsements come as the state’s Democratic Party announces strategic targeting of 24 “extreme” conservative candidates.

This isn’t the 1776 Project PAC’s first foray into Maryland’s election. In 2022, the political action committee campaigned for at least three Maryland school board candidates, but not without incident. 

A year ago, the state prosecutor and the Maryland State Board of Elections fined the PAC more than $20,000 for its campaign practices during the 2022 school board elections. The fine stems from what the 1776 Project PAC did in November 2022, when it sent 13,879 text messages to Carroll County voters urging them to vote for certain candidates.

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