Maryland has never elected a Black U.S. senator. But Democratic candidate Angela Alsobrooks, downplaying race and gender, said Monday it is her working-class roots that would make history if she is elected.

In Maryland, Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and former Governor Larry Hogan are going head-to-head in a crucial race that could determine control of the Senate. Here's what we know about Alsobrooks and her stance on key issues.

In their only faceoff in the solidly blue state, Hogan sought distance from Trump and the national GOP, while Alsobrooks touted her support for "the Democratic agenda."

Though he now faces criticism for it, former President Barack Obama opened dialogue for a larger conversation on misogyny in American politics after calling out Black men who have not come out in full-throated support of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.

Angela Alsobrooks leads Larry Hogan — 48 percent to 39 percent — among likely voters in a UMBC Institute of Politics poll.

The two leading U.S. Senate candidates in Maryland are preparing to go head to head in their first televised debate.

With just weeks to go in the race for U.S. Senate in Maryland, political analysts are taking a measure of the Angela Alsobrooks and Larry Hogan campaigns. Polling conducted by The Hill and the UMBC Institute of Politics,