Dems Should Be Worried About Maryland’s Senate Seat Because It Could Flip Red Real Soon; Here’s How

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Both U.S. Senate seats from Maryland have been reliably blue since 1987. But this election cycle, one Republican candidate could be the winner of a vacant seat in the upper chamber, turning a blue seat red for the first time in almost four decades.

The last two GOP senators the Old Line State sent to Washington were J. Glenn Beal, who left office in 1977, and Charles Mathias, who ended his career ten years later. And there hasn’t been a viable Republican candidate for either of the two slots since then.

But this year, sitting Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin is not running for re-election after nearly a dozen years in Washington D.C., and that leaves an open seat for the 2024 election cycle.

Into that breach has stepped former Gov. Larry Hogan, a name on the Republican side that has shaken the Democratic Party in Maryland.

Hogan has formally announced that he is going to run for the open Senate seat from Maryland, a move that has shocked nearly everyone on both sides of the aisle.

The former governor launched his campaign with a video touting his independent nature and his long record as a multiple-time office winner with Maryland voters.

Hogan also pointed out that he has a moderate record and will “stand up to both parties.”

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