Democrat Angela D. Alsobrooks maintains a clear lead in Maryland’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, fueled by voters’ lopsided preference for Democrats to control the chamber and doubts that Republican Larry Hogan would buck the will of party leaders, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
The Post-UMD poll finds that 52 percent of likely voters support Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County Executive, while 40 percent support former governor Hogan, and 4 percent support Libertarian Mike Scott. Alsobrooks’s lead of 12 percentage points is similar to her 11-point advantage in a September Post-UMD poll.
While behind in the poll, Hogan is outperforming the top of his party’s ticket in the deeply Democratic state. In the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a lead of 61 percent to 33 percent over former president Donald Trump, just shy of Joe Biden’s 33-point winning margin in 2020.
