Democrat Angela Alsobrooks maintains a healthy lead over Republican Larry Hogan in Maryland's 2024 U.S. Senate race, according to a UMBC poll.
The survey was carried out from September 23rd to 28th. When asked who they would vote for if the Senate race were “held today,” 48% of likely Maryland voters chose Prince George's County Executive Alsobrooks, while just 39% chose the former governor. Hogan, according to research.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, endorsed Alsobrooks' candidacy for Senate.
A Maryland Democratic Senate candidate says there should be no restrictions on abortion
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Maryland Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks take the stage together after speaking at a campaign event on Violence Awareness Day Armed at the Kentland Community Center on June 7, 2024 in Landover, Maryland. (Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)
Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump told Fox News earlier this year that he wants Hogan to win the Senate race. And when asked if he supported Hogan, Trump responded: “Of course I would, yes.”
But Hogan indicated he was not interested in the former president's endorsement, saying during an interview on WTOP, “I didn't ask for it, I didn't want it, and I have no interest in it.”
Hogan never voted for Trump and says he won't vote for Trump in 2024 In 2016, Hogan wrote to his father, Larry Hogan Sr., and in 2020, he wrote to the late President Ronald Reagan.
Maryland Senate Race: Democrat Alsobrooks beats Republican Hogan in closely watched race
Former Maryland Governor and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hogan speaks to members of the media at the AstraZeneca facility on Monday, August 26, 2024, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Hogan said that as a senator, he would support legislation to codify Roe v. Wade. Wade in law. Roe was Abolished by the Supreme Court in 2022.
He has also indicated that he will not support confirming Supreme Court nominees who fail to gain bipartisan support.
“Today, I promised Maryland that as a Senator I will only vote for nominees who can gain support from both sides of the aisle,” the moderate Republican noted in a recent post on X. “If there is one place we should not politicize, it is the Supreme Court and cabinet appointments that undermine our most sacred institutions – the Senate, I will not play along.”
Maryland Senate election poll shows Democrat also leads GOP's Hogan, though 1 in 3 don't know who he is
Angela Alsobrooks, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Maryland, greets voters during the state's primary election day at Lewisdale Elementary School in Chillum, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (via Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Getty Images)
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Maryland always goes Democrat during presidential elections. The last Republican to win a state in a presidential race was George HW Bush, who won Maryland in 1988.
The trend looks set to continue into 2024.
When asked who they would vote for “if the election were held today,” 57% of Maryland voters were likely to choose Harris and just 35% chose Trump, according to the poll.
“There is a 95 percent chance that survey results of the true population distribution for a given survey question will have the following percentage point sampling error,” the survey notes, listing a margin of sampling error of +/ – 3.3% for a sample of 863 likely Maryland voters.
