Democratic candidate Angela Alsobrooks is leading Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan by 9 percentage points in a poll of the Maryland Senate race released Wednesday, less than a month before the election.
Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County executive, is backed by 48 percent of likely voters in the poll from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Institute of Politics. Hogan had support from 39 percent of voters.
Despite trailing in the poll, Hogan is viewed slightly more favorably than Alsobrooks, 53 percent to 49 percent. Still, the percentage of voters who hold an unfavorable view of Hogan is higher than Alsobrooks’s unfavorable numbers, at 42 percent and 32 percent, respectively.
Voters are more familiar with Hogan’s record, as only 4 percent of participants said they have no opinion of him, compared to 19 percent who say they have no opinion of Alsobrooks.
While Alsobrooks leads Hogan by 9 points in the Senate race, it’s a smaller margin than the 22-point lead held by Democrats in the presidential contest. The poll showed Vice President Harris at 57 percent support, compared to 35 percent for former President Trump.