Why AP called the Maryland Senate race for Angela Alsobrooks

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Angela Alsobrooks racked up a big lead with Maryland’s large early vote share and kept it close with Republican Larry Hogan among Election Day voters, at the time The Associated Press called the race. Alsobrooks was carrying the populous Washington suburbs, where she holds county-elected office, and won in Baltimore and its periphery as well, when the race was called at 9:32 p.m. She was winning in deeply Democratic areas as well as with moderate voters, whom Hogan courted in a state that leans Democratic particularly in presidential years. Hogan would need to win about 55% of the outstanding ballots at the time the race was called, greater than the share he was getting.