Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (D) at a rally in June 2024. Photo by Elijah Pittman.
A year ago, the annual dinner of the group Progressive Maryland turned into an impromptu pep rally for U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-8th), who was the keynote speaker. Raskin had already said he wasn’t going to run for Senate in 2024, but many of the activists at the dinner tried to persuade him to change his mind, with chants of “Run, Jamie, Run!”
It didn’t work, of course.
A year later, Progressive Maryland is devoting most of its resources this fall to electing Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (D) to the Senate seat that Raskin declined to run for. The group has budgeted about $500,000 for the effort to defeat former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and expects its volunteers and field organizers to hit between 100,000 and 200,000 voters’ doors before Election Day.
“We’re going to have her back to beat Hogan,” said Larry Stafford, Progressive Maryland’s executive director. “We’re going to do the biggest field work in Maryland this fall, with the possible exception of the Democratic Party.”