MD's Alsobrooks Jabs At Trump In DNC Speech, Touts Harris' Credentials

MARYLAND — Among the speakers at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night was Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, who talked about her long friendship with presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

Gov. Wes Moore is one of the speakers in Wednesday night's convention, where is he expected to discuss public service and how his experience melds with the Harris-Walz campaign. Moore — who has been mentioned as a possible future national officeholder — will seek to reach voters at home or those who are not yet paying attention, experts said.

“What he would like to do is to at least be noticed, to break through, to have something that goes viral,” former political campaign speechwriter Leonard Steinhorn told the Baltimore Banner.

Alsobrooks, a friend of the vice president for 14 years, is running to become Maryland’s first Black U.S. senator in a competitive race against former Gov. Larry Hogan. The Maryland seat being vacated by Democrat Ben Cardin is critical if Democrats want to maintain control of the Senate.

A June poll by the North Carolina firm Public Policy Polling showed Alsobrooks had an 8-point lead over the former Republican governor.

Alsobrooks, who is the chief executive of Maryland’s second-most populous county in the suburbs of the nation’s capital, wrote on social media earlier in the day that she looks forward to sharing why Harris “is going to make an incredible President of the United States.” Both women are former prosecutors.

While Hogan won the governorship and was reelected in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1, the GOP has not won a Senate seat in Maryland in more than 40 years. Harris made a campaign stop for Alsobrooks in June in Prince George’s County.

Alsobrooks would become the nation’s third Black woman to be elected to the Senate. Harris was the second Black woman elected to the chamber.

“She put rapists, child molesters and murders behind bars,” said Alsobrooks of Harris.

The vice president has cited her years as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general in her race against Trump, who was convicted of dozens of felonies in a New York hush money case.

“Getting justice for others isn’t a power trip for her,” Alsobrooks said. “It’s a sacred calling. Kamala Harris knows how to keep criminals off the street.”

And, Alsobrooks predicted in a jab directed at Trump, “She’ll keep one out of the Oval Office.”

The Associated Press contributed reporting to this story.