One doesn’t need to be a particularly big fan of former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to smell a rat, and the stench of a media-driven one is definitely in the air in the state’s closely-watched Senate race.
As RedState previously reported, Hogan easily won the GOP Senate primary Tuesday, as expected. What was surprising to seasoned political observers about what happened in the Maryland primaries was seeing Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks defeat Rep. David Trone for the Democratic nomination.
Trone had been polling well ahead of Alsobrooks as recently as a month ago and had poured over $60 million of his own money into the race. But it was a series of colossal (and costly) blunders including uttering a racial slur (which he later claimed was an accident) at Shalanda Young, a black Biden administration official, during an April House hearing that in all…
