Angela Alsobrooks has kept Maryland’s open Senate seat in the Democratic column after a victory over Republican Larry Hogan, a popular two-term governor of the state.
The race quickly became one of the most unique (and expensive) in the country. Democrats, thanks to Mitch McConnell’s maneuvering, found themselves spending millions to defend an open Senate seat in a deep-blue bastion, one that the party would otherwise likely brushed off as a distraction. That was thanks to McConnell’s successful overtures to Hogan, the state’s popular former governor of two terms, who had previously turned down offers to run in the GOP presidential primary against Donald Trump. He had also dismissed the idea of running for Senate as recently as last year.
