Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
A new a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds Angela Alsobrooks (D) leading Larry Hogan (R) in the U.S. Senate race among likely voters, 52% to 40%.
Key takeaway: “The poll finds that 38% of voters think Hogan would act independently of Republican leaders if elected to the U.S. Senate, while 49% say he would support the policies of Republican leaders.”
A new Emerson College survey of Maryland likely voters finds 54% support Angela Alsobrooks (D), while 40% support Larry Hogan (R) in the U.S. Senate election.
“A PAC linked to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is launching $1.1 million worth of ads over the next two weeks to defend a Democratic seat in the deep blue state of Maryland,” Axios reports.
“It’s the latest sign of the Maryland Senate race proving to be surprisingly competitive with former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) — and a hefty new super PAC — gunning to flip the seat.”
A new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds Angela Alsobrooks (D) leads Larry Hogan (R) in the U.S. Senate race by 11 percentage points among likely voters, 51% to 40%.
“Larry Hogan just got some major reinforcements in his uphill Senate bid in the deep-blue state of Maryland,” Politico reports.
“Maryland’s Future, a super PAC created to aid Hogan, placed $18.2 million worth of ad buys so far this week, with ads set to begin airing on Tuesday… Republicans are now outspending Democrats in the state by a more than two-to-one margin.”
A new Emerson College Polling/DC News Now/The Hill poll finds 49% of Maryland likely voters support Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks (D), while 42% support former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) for the open U.S. Senate seat.
A new Gonzales Research poll in Maryland finds Angela Alsobrooks (D) has pulled ahead of Larry Hogan (R) in Maryland’s competitive Senate race, 46% to 41%.
“The new poll shows Hogan’s challenge in winning over enough voters during the next two months. While 50% of those surveyed said they hold a favorable opinion of him, only 41% said they would vote for him.”
A new AARP poll in Maryland finds Larry Hogan (R) and Angela Alsobrooks (D) tied in the U.S. Senate race, 46% to 46%.
In the presidential race, Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by 32 percentage points in a head-to head contest.
“Maryland Senate candidate Larry Hogan heaped praise on Donald Trump for his Supreme Court nominees at a speech in November 2022, months after all three joined a majority ruling overturning Roe v. Wade,” Semafor reports.
Said Hogan: “Now, we should give President Trump all the credit he deserves for his accomplishments in office. He cut taxes, he unleashed the power of domestic energy production, nominated incredible justices to the Supreme Court, and his policies for Israel were the strongest we ever had.”
Republican senators were shown new internal polling during a private lunch that has former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) besting Angela Alsobrooks (D) in Maryland’s U.S. Senate race, 47% to 41%, Axios reports.
Politico: “Just days after being endorsed by the former president, the Maryland Senate hopeful released a new spot Monday that doesn’t name Trump at all but instead stresses his independence from the GOP. He invokes his father, Larry Hogan Sr., the first GOP congressmember on the Judiciary Committee to call for President Richard Nixon’s impeachment, and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who bucked his party to save Obamacare.”
Says Hogan at the end of his ad: “As President Kennedy said, ‘Sometimes party loyalty demands too much.’”
Donald Trump told Fox News he is endorsing former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R) Senate campaign bid.
Said Trump: “I’d like to see him win. I think he has a good chance to win… I know other people made some strong statements, but I can just say from my standpoint, I’m about the party and I’m about the country. And I would like to see him win.”
Axios: “Trump very rarely shows any goodwill toward candidates who do not support him, but he made an exception for Hogan because flipping Maryland’s open Senate seat would go a long way in helping Republicans regain control of the Senate.”
U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hogan (R), the former two-term governor of Maryland, won’t attend next month’s Republican National Convention that will be led by Donald Trump, a Hogan political adversary, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Hogan did not attend GOP conventions in 2016 and 2020 either.
After former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) called on Americans to “respect the verdict” in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, Trump strategist Chris LaCivta tweeted: “You just ended your campaign.”
Punchbowl News: “You’re either all in for Trump or you’re against him. His camp is watching everything every Republican says very closely and is ready to pounce on any sign of perceived weakness or disloyalty.”
“There’s no middle ground for Republicans on Trump. There never has been and there never will be. This is the ‘Ride or Die’ campaign for president.”
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is insisting in a new ad that Republicans can’t take his vote for granted in the Senate, Punchbowl News reports.
“Hogan’s campaign rolled out its second TV ad of the general election on Tuesday. The goal: Convince Maryland voters that the well-regarded two-term governor will be an independent-minded senator.”
Said Hogan: “If they want my vote, they will have to do what is right for Maryland — not one political party.”
Politico: “Hogan’s first general election ad is set to air Wednesday, and it’s entirely about abortion. In it, the former governor goes direct-to-camera as he endorses codifying the abortion protections the nation had under Roe v. Wade.”
Said Hogan, in the ad: “With Roe overturned, many have asked what I’ll do in the United States Senate. I’ll support legislation that makes Roe the law of the land in every state, so every woman can make her own choice.”
“Larry Hogan, the former two-term Republican governor of Maryland who this week won his party’s nomination for the state’s open Senate seat, said in an interview on Thursday that he supports legislation to codify abortion rights in federal law, describing himself as ‘pro-choice’ in a remarkable pivot as he heads into a highly competitive race,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Hogan, who just two years ago vetoed a state law to expand abortion access in Maryland, also said he would vote to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s Constitution, a measure that will be on the ballot in November. He had previously declined to take a clear stance on either issue.”
Politico: Larry Hogan’s won tough races before. Never like this.
Playbook: “Now that the Maryland Senate matchup is set, Democrats are wasting no time teeing off on Hogan — painting him not as an aisle-crossing dealmaker and Trump skeptic, but as a self-described ‘lifelong Republican’ who will largely toe the party line once elected.”
A new digital ad and fundraising site shares a simple message: “A vote for Larry Hogan is a vote for a Republican Senate majority.”
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