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Five highlights from primary election night in Maryland
July 20, 2022 -

Maryland’s action-packed primary day ended Tuesday with nominees in some races and left many others too close to call as nearly every consequential state and local race was on the ballot. Here’s a rundown of what you might have missed. Del. Dan Cox, a far-right conservative Republican endorsed by former President Donald Trump, made headlines around the country as he defeated Gov. Larry Hogan’s hand-picked successor, former state Commerce Secretary Kelly Schulz. Polls in recent months had shown a neck-and-neck race even as Schulz out-fundraised and outspent Cox the entire way.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Ivan Bates holds 4,000 vote lead in Baltimore state’s attorney race as rivals await mail-in count
July 20, 2022 -

Challenger Ivan Bates jumped ahead and held his lead through the night Tuesday in the highly anticipated race for Baltimore state’s attorney. The defense attorney won about 41% of votes counted Tuesday, leading incumbent Marilyn Mosby and challenger Thiru Vignarajah. They received about 32% and 27%, respectively. Mosby and Vignarajah did not concede and encouraged their supporters to hold out hope for the mail-in ballots. Nearly 44,000 ballots were mailed to city Democrats, and they remain to be counted this week. Bates expressed optimism about his chances of unseating the controversial two-term state’s attorney.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Hogan defends veto at the heart of Maryland’s delayed election results
July 20, 2022 -

As Maryland voters brace for days or weeks of not knowing who won tightly contested primary races, Gov. Larry Hogan doubled down on the veto that ensured the unprecedented scramble. A spokesman for term-limited Hogan (R), who was in Colorado on Tuesday as voters cast their primary ballots for statewide office, blamed the Democratic lawmakers who pitched the proposal in advance of what they feared would become a chaotic primary. “It’s regrettable the General Assembly did not pass a clean early-canvassing bill,” Michael Ricci said in response to questions about Hogan’s decision.

Read More: Washington Post
Ivey defeats Edwards in bitter, high-profile Md. primary for House
July 20, 2022 -

Glenn Ivey, the former top prosecutor in Prince George’s County, has defeated ex-congresswoman Donna Edwards in Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, according to a projection from the Associated Press, positioning him to join the U.S. House after an acrimonious campaign. The race in the deep-blue, Prince George’s-anchored district was Tuesday’s highest-profile Maryland congressional primary. Elsewhere, Republicans notably selected Del. Neil Parrott (R-Washington County) to take on Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) in a 6th District rematch that’s likely to be November’s most competitive House race in the state.

Read More: Washington Post
Lierman named winner in Democratic primary for comptroller over Adams
July 20, 2022 -

Maryland state Del. Brooke Lierman appeared to secure the Democratic nomination for state comptroller on Tuesday night, leading Bowie Mayor Tim Adams by more than 95,000 votes. Lierman, a delegate who’s represented the city of Baltimore since 2015, had amassed 64% of the vote with 95% of Election Day precincts and all early voting centers reporting results around midnight. She was projected as winner of the contest by the Associated Press on Tuesday night, and later declared victory in a series of tweets.

Read More: Maryland Matters
What you need to know about Maryland GOP gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox
July 20, 2022 -

Maryland’s Republican Party just got turned on its head. Del. Dan Cox, a far-right conservative endorsed by former President Donald Trump, had the victory of the night in Tuesday’s primary as he defeated GOP Gov. Larry Hogan’s hand-picked successor, former state Commerce Secretary Kelly Schulz. After eight years of a moderate Republican governor — one who many Marylanders still give high marks — Cox represents a sharp turn for some conservatives in the state. Here are five things to know about, potentially, Maryland’s next governor.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Maryland Sen. Van Hollen wins primary months after stroke
July 20, 2022 -

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen won the Democratic nomination for his seat on Tuesday, defeating a little-known challenger just months after suffering a minor stroke. Van Hollen will be the heavy favorite in November’s general election in the liberal state, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1. In other top contests in Maryland’s primary election, voters were selecting nominees in the highly competitive contest to replace Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who is prohibited from running for a third consecutive term. He has endorsed Kelly Schulz, who served as labor and commerce secretaries in his administration.

Read More: CBS Baltimore
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Moore posts big early lead in Democratic gubernatorial primary; Perez is second and optimistic
July 20, 2022 -

Best-selling author and former foundation executive Wes Moore, who began his long-shot pursuit of the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in single digits, catapulted into the lead on Tuesday as the first wave of ballots were counted. With early-voting ballots counted and 1,958 of 2,074 precincts reporting primary day ballots, Moore and his running mate, former state Del. Aruna Miller, had 37% of the primary vote. Former U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez, a former Maryland Labor Secretary and Montgomery County Council member, had 27%. He and his running mate, former Baltimore City Council member Shannon Sneed, trailed Moore and Miller by about 34,000 votes.

Read More: Maryland Matters
Maryland primary voting ends Tuesday, here’s the latest:
July 19, 2022 -

We are on the cusp of Maryland’s first-ever mid-summer primary election day. The polls will reopen Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. the same day. Due to the many different ways to vote this year, which include early voting and mail-in ballots, WBAL Robert Lang reports the vote counting process is more complicated and likely to take longer than people used to.

Read More: WBAL
Ex-congresswoman, GOP target on ballot as Maryland votes for Congress
July 19, 2022 -

Maryland primary voters will make their picks for Congress on Tuesday, in a midterm election year in which Democrats’ slim House majority is on the line and every seat counts. But the most high-profile race on the ballot is in deep-blue territory. Former congresswoman Donna F. Edwards, seeking to return to her old seat in the state’s 4th Congressional District, has been locked in a bitter faceoff with former Prince George’s County state’s attorney Glenn Ivey that has attracted millions of dollars in outside spending.

Read More: Washington Post

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