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What Marylanders Are Reading After Last Night’s Debate

What Marylanders Are Reading After Last Night’s Debate

Yesterday, Marylanders saw firsthand what’s at stake if Larry Hogan is elected to the Senate, giving Republicans the majority they’d need to pass a national abortion ban and adopt the extreme, MAGA Project 2025 agenda.

Highlighting Hogan’s close ties to Mitch McConnell, his faux independence, and his record on abortion, Alsobrooks delivered a strong performance that demonstrated the clear choice facing Marylanders come November.

In case you couldn’t tune in, read below for some of the most illuminating moments from last night’s debate:

From Mikenzie Frost on Hogan’s debate performance:

First flub of debate: Hogan says the reason he decided to run for governor…quickly correcting himself by saying he’s running for senate.

From The Washington Post on Hogan’s stance on abortion:

As she has throughout the campaign, Alsobrooks used abortion to cast her opponent as too conservative to represent Maryland voters in the Senate, seizing on the former governor’s decision to veto a bill that expanded abortion care and later withhold funding to train new abortion providers. (The veto was overturned by the Democratic-controlled state legislature and the funding was eventually released by Hogan’s successor.)

“The fact of the matter is, when the governor had an opportunity to stand up for the women of Maryland, he didn’t,” Alsobrooks said.

From Chuck Todd on Hogan’s ties to National Republicans:

You have a lot of TV ads that talk about your independence and say you’re going to be a political independent. These TV ads are paid for by the NRSC – by the Republican party. Can voters really believe you’ll be an Independent if the Republicans are paying for your TV advertisements?

From AP on Hogan’s ties to National Republicans:

But Alsobrooks countered that while Hogan says he’d be independent, when GOP leadership recruited him to run for an office he had previously said he was uninterested in seeking, he “gladly put on their jersey.”

“When Mitch McConnell called him, he put the jersey on,” Alsobrooks said, referring to the Kentucky senator and longtime leader in the chamber. “He ran into the game.”

And finally, from Larry Hogan on Angela Alsobrooks:

“I like and respect Angela Alsobrooks,” Hogan said in his opening statement. “We got a chance to work together while I was governor. We accomplished a great deal together for Prince George’s County, and she’s got a great life story.”

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