Former two-term Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP Senate nomination, casts his ballot in the state's primary May 14, 2024, in Davidsonville, Md. Hogan is joined by his wife Yumi. (Larry Hogan Senate campaign)
Hogan will face off in November against either three-term Rep. David Trone, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, or Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, who steers Maryland's second-most populous county. Trone and Alsobrooks were the clear frontrunners in a crowded Democratic primary race that turned into a combustible fight over whether electability outweighs diversity.
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Trone, the co-founder and co-owner of Total Wine and More, invested more than $50 million of his own money in his primary campaign.
"The polls say I'm the only candidate who can beat Larry Hogan. And I intend to use every ounce of my energy to do just that. The stakes are just too damn high," he said in one of his final ads.
While Trone massively outspent Alsobrooks, she enjoyed the backing of much of the state's Democratic establishment, including endorsements from Gov. Wes Moore, Sen. Chris Van Hollen and five House members.
Former two-term GOP Gov. Larry Hogan, the leading 2024 Republican Senate candidate in Maryland, is surrounded by supporters in Cockeysville, Md., May 13, 2024. (Fox News/Matthew Reidy )
The Senate Democrats' campaign committee is spotlighting that if elected, Hogan would caucus with Republicans and that his victory could give the majority in the chamber to the GOP.
"Marylanders know that a vote for Republican Larry Hogan is a vote to turn the Senate over to Republicans so they can pass a national abortion ban and push forward Republicans’ extreme policies. That’s a disqualifying agenda for Maryland voters. Democrats have won every statewide federal election in Maryland for the past 40 years, and 2024 will be no different," Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesperson Amanda Sherman Baity told Fox News in a statement.
Hogan, a vocal critic of former Preisdent Trump, mulled a run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and made numerous trips in 2022 to New Hampshire, the state that holds the first primary in the GOP nominating calendar. But in March of last year, Hogan announced he wouldn't seek his party's nomination.
During his last year as governor, Republican leaders in the nation's capital and in Maryland heavily courted Hogan to run for the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections.
But Hogan declined, saying in a news conference in February that year that "as I have repeatedly said, I don't aspire to be a United States senator."
Fast-forward two years and Hogan changed his mind after another full-court press by national Republican leaders.
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