According to a UMBC poll, Democrat Angela Allsbrooks has a wide lead over Republican Larry Hogan in the 2024 Maryland Senate race.
The survey was conducted from September 23rd to September 28th. When asked who they would vote for if the U.S. Senate race were held today, 48% of likely Maryland voters said Prince George's County Executive, Mr. Alsobrooks, compared to Only 39% chose the governor. Hogan, according to polls.
Vice President Kamala Harris, a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, endorsed Albrooks' candidacy for the Senate.
Maryland Democratic Senate candidate says there should be no restrictions on abortion
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic candidates for the Maryland Senate stand together on stage after speaking at a Gun Violence Awareness Day campaign event at the Kentland Community Center in Landover, Maryland, on June 7, 2024. Angela Alsobrooks, Prince George's County Executive; (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Fox News earlier this year that he wanted Hogan to win the Senate race. When asked if he would support Hogan, Trump said, “Basically I would support him, yes.”
But Hogan indicated he was not interested in supporting the former president, saying in an interview with WTOP, “I didn't ask for it, I didn't want to get it, I'm not interested.”
Hogan has never voted for Trump and has said he will not vote for him in 2024. In 2016, he wrote a letter to his father, Larry Hogan Sr., and in 2020, he wrote a letter to the late President Ronald Reagan.
Maryland Senate race: Democrat Alsobrooks leads Republican Hogan in closely watched race
Former Maryland Governor and U.S. Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan speaks to members of the media at the AstraZeneca facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on Monday, August 26, 2024. (Graham Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
As a senator, Hogan said he would support legislation to codify Roe v. Wade. Roe was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022.
He also said he would not support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominees who do not have bipartisan support.
“Today, I promised the state of Maryland that I would only vote for candidates who can garner support from both sides of the aisle for the Senate,” the moderate Republican said in a recent post on X. We shouldn't play politics, it's appointments to the Supreme Court and Cabinet, partisan games undermine our most sacred institutions, and I won't work with you in the Senate. ”
Maryland Senate poll finds Democrat Alsobrooks leading Republican Hogan, even though one in three people don't know her true identity
Democratic U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland greets voters on the day of the state's primary election Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at Lewisdale Elementary School in Chillum, Maryland. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
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Maryland consistently favors the Democratic Party in presidential elections. The last Republican to win the state in a presidential election was George H.W. Bush, who won Maryland in 1988.
This trend is expected 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, while only a minority would choose Trump, according to the poll. It was 35%.
“There is a 95% chance that the survey results will contain a sampling error of +/- percentage points from the actual population distribution for the particular survey question,” the poll notes. A margin of 3.3% is shown. Probably Maryland voters.
