Democrat April McClain Delaney narrowly won a U.S. House seat in Maryland’s most competitive congressional race that came to focus on reproductive rights and the economy.
A video of Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott lamenting the loss of Vice President Kamala Harris — and America’s treatment of Black women in general — has gone viral.
“It was kind of a gift that David Smith and the proponents of the bill gave this city,” said Zac Blanchard, who unseated a Smith-backed candidate in May.
The only real choice confronting the majority of Marylanders who voted against Donald Trump’s return to the White House is to face it. America, we hardly knew you.
Speaking at Howard University in Washington, Kamala Harris conceded the presidential election to Donald Trump on Wednesday and encouraged supporters to continue fighting for their vision of the country.
Chris Megerian, Darlene Superville and Matt Brown, Associated Press
President-elect Donald Trump came nowhere close to winning reliably blue Maryland’s 10 electoral votes Tuesday, but he performed better in every one of its 23 counties and Baltimore City.
Republicans have taken control of the U.S. Senate and are fighting to keep their majority in the U.S. House, which would produce a full sweep of GOP power in Congress alongside President-elect Donald Trump in the White House.
The results left Democrats facing an urgent and immediate reckoning, with no obvious leader to unite the anti-Trump coalition and no clear plan to rebuild as an emboldened Trump prepares to re-take Washington.
Donald Trump's win over Vice President Kamala Harris makes him the first person convicted of a felony to be elected president and, at 78, the oldest person elected to the office.
Zeke Miller, Michelle L. Price and Will Weissert and Jill Colvin, Associated Press
Maryland voters made history on Tuesday, voting to send Angela Alsobrooks to Washington as the first Black woman to represent the state in the U.S. Senate.
Democrat Sarah Elfreth won the race for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, a heavily Democratic area that includes swaths of Howard and Anne Arundel counties.