Maryland’s 4th Congressional District primary features influential Prince George’s Democrats

This isn’t their first rodeo. Both Donna Edwards and Glenn Ivey, each Prince George’s County heavyweights, have led their share of Maryland political campaigns, even squaring off against each other once before. Edwards, who represented the 4th District from 2008-2017 as Maryland’s first Black congresswoman, also ran for a U.S. Senate seat in a nationally watched race in 2016 and bid unsuccessfully for Prince George’s County executive two years later. Ivey, who served as Prince George’s top prosecutor for nearly a decade, contemplated running against Edwards for her House seat back in 2009, and got into the race against her a few years later, dropping out several months before the 2012 primary.