Maryland Senate candidate Larry Hogan Reaching out to Hispanic and Latino voters during the election homestretch is keeping an eye on a key group of voters his team hopes can help sway an unusually competitive race for the deep blue state.
The Republican team believes Prince County Executive Angela Alsobrooks has potential vulnerabilities with Hispanic and Latino voters and is deploying ads aimed at alienating them.
“Angela wants the Latino vote but she hasn’t put a single Latino on her board of directors. Our community is not his priority,” an ad from the Hogan campaign said, according to a translation on Spanish radio.
On Monday, the Hogan campaign released a new ad in English that included a testimonial from Dendry Aguilar, CEO of Centro de Habla Hispana, who runs the business in Prince George’s County.
The English advertisement features Aguilar praising Hogan, praising him as a man who can “move mountains.” While that position eluded Alsobrooks, Aguilar gave a blunt assessment of his reign.
“We have been hurt a lot during his administration,” Aguilar told The Post. Knocking on Alsobrooks for money redirection A new police force is distancing itself from the facility and criticizing its pandemic policies.
Aguilar also criticized the lack of representation in Alsobrooks’s cabinet. “No one has been appointed to any of his executive level positions.”
“There’s not a single Hispanic there.”
Alsobrooks has faced controversy in the past On the lack of Latinos and Hispanics in his Cabinet. despite this his commitment “Ensure that our Latino communities have a seat at the table and that their voices are always represented.”
Nevertheless, Alsobrooks has received support from some groups such as CASA in action,
Hispanic and Latino voters make up about 12.6% of Maryland’s population, As per latest census data And they could be key to Hogan’s uphill battle to upset the Senate this cycle.
During his re-election bid for governor in 2018, Hogan managed to garner 48% support from Latino voters, compared to 51% for Democrat Ben Jealous – a strong performance for a Republican in a Blue Wave year. According to a survey of the competition,
Maryland’s Senate race has drawn the attention of top party leadership from both parties due to Hogan’s history of statewide victories running for governor in 2014 and 2018. Still, he is far behind in the Senate race.
cook political report This race is ranked as “Likely Democrat” and the latest RealClear Politics Overall, Alsobrooks gets a 9.5 point lead over Hogan. However, at one time last month the lead was around four points.
It is noteworthy that this is the state where President Biden won by about 33 percentage points in 2020. The Old Line State has not had a Republican in the upper house since 1987. There is only one Republican in Maryland’s eight-member congressional delegation – Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.).
Hogan had tried to appeal to moderates by taking a pro-choice stance on abortion and announcing that he would not vote for former President Donald Trump, a man with whom he repeatedly clashed during his administration.
Given the Senate split of 51 Democratic to 49 Republican, a race could upset the balance of power in the upper chamber. Republicans are already favored to flip the seat of outgoing Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV).
The GOP is also very optimistic about flipping the seat of Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and keeping an eye on races in Michigan, Ohio Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Nevada.
Republicans have a favorable map, having to defend only 11 seats compared to 23 seats aligned with the Democrats (which includes three seats held by independent senators aligned with the Democrats).
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