Angela Alsobrooks, the executive of Prince George's County, is expected to be a frontrunner in the bid to replace retiring Maryland Senator Ben Cardin
Trone, on the other hand, has already assembled a campaign team and is preparing to pour a fortune into securing a Senate seat. A wealthy businessman who founded the Total Wine and More retail chain, he’s told associates that heas much as $50 million of his own money on the campaign, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Trone has a history of self-funding his bids for elected office. It hasn’t always worked. In 2016, Raskin defeated Trone in a three-way Democratic primary to replace Chris Van Hollen when he vacated his House seat to run for Senate. Raskin raised and spent about $1 million on that contest compared to the roughly $17 million Trone injected from his own pocket.
Alsobrooks, 52, has been expected to run for Cardin’s seat for months. Trone seemed to tacitly acknowledge that she or Raskin would be favored when hehis bid last week. “I know I won’t be the establishment choice,” he says in his campaign video. Yet Alsobrooks is likely to face headwinds on fundraising. Whereas Trone can finance himself and Raskin would have millions sitting in his federal campaign war chest, she will have to fundraise from scratch. Campaign finance laws forbid her from transferring money from her state account into a federal one.
Before her election as Prince George’s County Executive, Alsbrooks served two terms as state’s attorney, where she was known as a tough-on-crime prosecutor. During her tenure, crime
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