Former Prince George’s state’s attorney Glenn Ivey (D) and state Del. Jazz Lewis (D-Prince George’s) announced Tuesday they are running to succeed U.S. Rep. Anthony G. Brown (D-Md.), a day after Brown said he would vacate the congressional seat to run for Maryland attorney general.
Ivey’s and Lewis’s announcements could be the beginning of a surge of candidates into the race for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, which Brown has represented since 2016. The deep-blue district includes much of Prince George’s County and parts of Anne Arundel County.
Ivey led the Prince George’s state’s attorney’s office from 2002 until 2010. He spent years as a congressional staffer and last year started his own law firm. He came in second to Brown in the bitter, six-way 2016 Democratic primary for the 4th District seat. The seat was vacated then by Donna F. Edwards when she unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate. Edwards’s name is now among those being discussed as possible other contenders for the 4th District seat. Other possible candidates include Prince George’s County Council member Derrick Leon Davis (D-District 6) and state Sen. Melony Griffith (D-Prince George’s).
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