In the 14-candidate Senate contest among Republicans, state House Minority Whip Kathy Szeliga received 36 percent of the vote to secure the nomination. Mikulski (D) is retiring after 30 years.
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The campaign became a polarizing battle over race, gender and personality as the two candidates sought to succeed Mikulski, the nation’s longest-serving female senator.
Van Hollen was elected to Congress in 2002 and now represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, which stretches from the Washington, D.C. suburbs to the Pennsylvania border and includes portions of Carroll, Frederick and Montgomery counties.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, who has built a reputation over two decades in public office as a policy-steeped dealmaker, has been battling Rep. Donna Edwards, a black single mother with an activist history but fewer political allies.
But the results of Tuesday’s primary election have underscored the challenges confronting that effort, even in her home state: With Mikulski leaving Congress, and Rep.
Similar to Edwards, Sanders, who has gripped overwhelming backing from millennials, is running as an idealist progressive who vows to shift the party further left.
Although polls across the state closed at 8 p.m., results were held until 9 p.m., because four polling places in Baltimore were ordered by a judge to stay open an extra hour after delays opening Tuesday morning.
Edwards is seeking the Democratic nomination for Maryland’s open Senate seat. The stats drops to an abysmal 0 percent when it comes to the Senate, but with the Maryland primary, Edwards is hoping to bridge the race and gender gaps and move the Senate toward more equal representation.
Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards is also running for Mikulski’s seat, leaving her seat open in the 4th Congressional District.
“More than 40 percent of the Democratic primary electorate in Maryland is expected to be African-American”, reports NPR. He said he saw her support picking up in Baltimore City six months ago, but criticized black establishment figures who have stood idly by while she’s attacked.
Unlike many presidential primaries in Maryland in recent years, candidates have made repeated campaign stops in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1.
The critics said the ad misrepresented a deal Van Hollen had to make to gain support for the bill that would strengthen campaign regulations after the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. Kathy Szeliga emerged the victor in a crowded Republican field that included Richard Douglas, a former Defense Department appointee in the George W. Bush administration.
BALTIMORE – On Capitol Hill, Representative Chris Van Hollen is, literally and figuratively, a Democratic fair-haired boy.
Edwards says attacks on her record are worse than a dog whistle of racism and sexism.
Szeliga is now serving as a member of the House of Delegates, where she was elected in 2011, and where she has served as the house minority whip since 2013. “It is whether the people of Maryland want somebody who can be effective, or somebody who’s going to bask in her own feelings of moral superiority because of various and sundry factors, and effectiveness has nothing to do with it”.
Josh Shapiro won a Democratic contest for Pennsylvania Attorney General.
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Van Hollen significantly outpaced Edwards in individual fundraising-bringing in $8.1 million compared to Edwards’ $3.3 million-but Edwards was buoyed by about $3.4 million in spending by EMILY’s List, the political group dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women.
