Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks won the race for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, defeating former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.
Alsobrooks earned more than 54 percent of the vote when the Associated Press called the race Tuesday night. Democrats will retain the seat, which is currently held by retiring U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.).
Alsobrooks became Prince George’s County’s first female county executive in 2018 after serving as the county’s state’s attorney from 2011 to 2018. She was also the first Black woman elected to the county executive office in Maryland, according to her campaign website.
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During her Senate campaign, Alsobrooks touted her accomplishments in reducing violent crime by 50 percent as state’s attorney and expanding health care and mental health treatment as county executive, her website said.
As a senator, the lifelong Prince Georgian plans to prioritize issues such as reproductive rights, voting equality and criminal justice reform, according to her campaign website.
She vowed to advocate for federal protections for abortion and the Freedom to Vote Act, her website said. The act would create national automatic voter registration and ban gerrymandering, according to the Associated Press.
Alsobrooks earned several endorsements from prominent national and state leaders, including Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Barack Obama, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) .
Alsobrooks will be the fourth Black woman to serve in the U.S Senate and the first to represent Maryland.
