Before we get to the latest events in the Maryland Senate race, let’s check the general landscape of the battle for control over the Upper Chamber of Congress. The most sensitive places for GOP are in Texas and Florida, which gives us the feeling of how slim elections are so that democrats can attack. Republican sat Ted cross AND Rick Scott Each of them leads in their races, and the last polls give them modest advantages. If I had to guess, I would expect Cruz to win through the average digit, and Scott wins a similar or even greater margin. Of course, nothing should be taken for something obvious, because the insufficient GOP results have been surprised in the key races of the Senate over the last cycles, but Team Red should be preferred to maintain all places in the cycle this year. In the blue column, the headquarters of Joe Manchina in west Virginia is considered to go through both sides, because neither side seriously questions this race. Everything else was equal, it was the number 50 for the Republicans. As for the key 51 place, which will guarantee the majority, This battle Looks the most favorable:
Place this race in the bank. Good work of all who had there. It is time for donors to repeat that regardless of this, however, the mentality on PA, Oh, NV and Va, where candidates from R become deprived. Most seating will be complex to defend in 2026. I have to get 53+! https://t.co/i34hfazkvm
– Brad Todd (@bradonmessage) September 24, 2024
Sheehy is a high -quality claimant who is an aggressive argument against Jon Tester as a false “moderate”, which transfers the program of his party almost all the time, especially when the cards are abandoned. We call the tester “Schumer with a flat hairstyle” because it looks like a moderate Montana, and conducts ads every six years, pretending to be something other than what reflects his record in DC. Tester voices such as Chuck Schumer. And if The surveys are trueHis days are numbered. I will not go as far as a republican agent cited above, calling this person “in the bank” for the party, but looks quite powerful. It has an absolutely correct statement that GOP is the world of a good itself, banking as the largest map of the Senate extremely favorable, taking into account much more complex cycles. Loading any majority would not be just crucial for the next two years; It is also a protection against possible democratic profits in 2026 And not only. Ohio can be another best shot for Republicans, because the next last survey showed Bernie Moreno before Sherrod Brown, Buckeye:
🚨 #BEATING: Bernie Moreno runs the Ohio Senate race, novel survey shows
🔴 Moreno: 51.1% (+2.2)
🔵 Brown: 48.9%Active September 4 | N = 400lv pic.twitter.com/ukxoglsrhi
– Eric Daughrty (@ericldugh) September 22, 2024
Other polls show that the democrat is still above all, though narrowly in several data sets. Brown has a powerful political brand and activity in Ohio, but Trump will probably move a state of seven to ten again, which can assist Moreno overtake Brown. This is a really crucial breed. Others, such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and elsewhere, are also in the mixture, and some polls show several of these very tight and even bound races. Then in Maryland is Longshot Longshot Larry Hogan. He is a moderate republican and very popular former governor in one of the most prominent states in the country. Biden absolutely crushed Trump there and Harris will do the same. Can Hogan overcome these biased winds in some way? Some polls show a very competitive race. And now Tax scandal He hit the democratic opponent of Hogan:
Angela Alsobrooks, democratic nominated for the US Senate in Maryland, She incorrectly benefited from tax breaks, which she did not qualify for, including one intended for low -income seniors, saving thousands of dollars of taxes on two properties, which she had in Washington and Maryland. A review of real estate registers and CNN tax accounts shows that for both real estate Alsobrooks has found a tax exemption related to the household for over a decade, which is to apply only to someone’s main place of residence, violating state and local requirements regarding tax breaks. She too He incorrectly had a tax relief of seniors on his property in Washington, reducing the tax account by half. Alsobrooks, 53, never qualified for this tax reliefBut her grandparents, who were in front of her property, probably did it. The senior adviser Alsobrooks told CNN that she was not aware of the problem and that her lawyers cooperate with both Washington and the prince George, Maryland’s unit to solve the problem.
Alsobrooks saved almost 14,000 USD taxes in 2005–2017 on its property in the north -eastern part of Washington, applying tax exemptions for the main residents of the district, residents of lower income and seniors, in accordance with the Real estate review of real estate reviewed by CNN. But according to public records, she did not live in Washington. From 1995, she was registered to vote in Prince George’s, where she was a long -term clerk. He is currently there Supervises the budget of the county and its division of taxes… Alsobrooks’s campaign indicated that Hogan also received a tax relief in his Edgewater home, Maryland in 2016, living in the residence of the governor in Annapolis. But Governors and federal employees are released from the requirements of the stay.
What an incredibly needy attempt to push, at the end of the fragment. In my opinion (and this is not primary thought), tax scandals for democrats should be treated as sexual scandals for socially conservative Republicans. We see hypocrisy and other problematic content He founded In the governorate race in North Carolina, and national media pay attention to the bombastic social conservative attracted in an embarrassing situation. The range should be similar when democrats from tax on enthusiasm are exposed to the lack of payment of “fair participation” or at least what they are guilty. Hogan’s campaign has published a series of questions for its opponent, in the lithe of these apparitions, and should be forced to count with them:
1 Tangling offered Through the campaign, Alsobrooks suggests that “she was not aware of any tax breaks related to this property.” But Angela Alsobrooks is not a certain citizen easily stumbled by joint real estate transactions. In it Long story As a career politician, Alsobrooks was the executive director of the Revenue Office of Prince George in 2004-2010. High at the top Mission The Office for Revenues is their role “as a financial agency for real estate development and development”. In other words, Alsobrooks should either have known better or it is not in the future about what happened. How does Alsobrooks explain the financial agency of real estate financed by taxpayers, while not making the basic due diligence on their own property taxes?
2 CNN report He notes that Alsobrooks, “improperly demanded a tax break for older citizens on Washington’s property, reducing the tax account by half”, saving her almost 14,000 USD taxes in 2005–2017. By using tax gaps to which it is not entitled, Alsobrooks implements a policy agenda, which covers taxes on all others. For example, Her website He declares his support for increasing the restrictions on social security taxes, a program that would cost Marylanders billions in higher taxes. Alsobrooks supports tax on Elizabeth Warren’s assets. And Alsobrooks indicated in the survey of NEA candidates that it did not support the revocation of the restriction of tax and local deductions (salts), which were exceeded as part of the 207 reduction of Donald Trump’s taxes – a position that puts her outside of steps with most of the Maryland congress delegations. How does Angela Alsobrooks justify an attempt to raise taxes from Seniors Maryland, while illegally applying for a tax relief for low -income seniors?
Alsobrooks justification is that she knew nothing about the dishonest tax breaks she received and used. As the Team Hogan asks: “How does Alsobrooks explain the conduct of real estate financial agency financed by taxpayers” with the “Revenue Office”, and at the same time not observing the law in her life? Will he answer any questions? And do voters in the state of Maryland care that democrats with taxes apparently avoid their own tax “honest participation” for years?
