From the owner’s box at Camden Yards, David Trone gazed out at the crowd — a sea of Orioles fans in orange and black — and pronounced himself one of them.
“We grew up all our lives rooting for the Orioles,” the 67-year-old congressman, who was raised in Pennsylvania near the Maryland border, said at the team’s sold-out home opener last month.
As the Orioles sought to dispatch the New York Yankees, Trone had his own mission inside the two-level VIP suite: to shore up his Baltimore bona fides as he prepared to campaign for the U.S. Senate in next year’s Democratic primary.
The race to succeed retiring Sen. Ben Cardin, 79, is notable not only for who is in it — Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, 52, and Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando, 40, are among the other Democratic contenders — but who is not. Unlike in previous Senate elections, there is no candidate so far from Baltimore, the state’s largest city, or the surrounding area.
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