Maryland Senate results: Democrat Angela Alsobrooks defeats Larry Hogan

Democrats got a boost in their against-the-odds attempt to hold the US Senate on Tuesday when Angela Alsobrooks, the executive of Prince George’s county, defeated the former Republican governor Larry Hogan for an open seat. Endorsed and supported by Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and other Democratic luminaries, Alsobrooks is only the fourth Black woman ever elected to the US Senate. Harris was the second, from California in 2016 and following Carol Moseley Braun, who represented Illinois between 1993 and 1999. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who won election in Delaware earlier on Tuesday, pipped Alsobrooks for third. Hogan, a popular moderate, sought

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