Democrats lost the US Senate on Tuesday but they got a boost when Angela Alsobrooks, the executive of Prince George’s county, defeated the former Republican governor Larry Hogan for an open seat.
Endorsed and supported by Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and other Democratic luminaries, Alsobrooks will be the first Black senator from Maryland and only the fourth Black woman ever elected to the US Senate. Harris was the second, from California in 2016 and following Carol Moseley Braun, who represented Illinois between 1993 and 1999. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who won election in Delaware earlier on Tuesday, pipped Alsobrooks for third by a matter of hours. Laphonza Butler, currently a senator from California, was appointed to her seat last year.
