Montgomery County Councilman Will Jawando announces run for Maryland’s open US Senate seat

Montgomery County Council member Will Jawando introduced Tuesday he’s operating within the 2024 election to symbolize Maryland within the U.S. Senate, eyeing the seat being vacated by Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin.

Jawando, a Democrat, has served as an at-large Montgomery County council member since he was elected and sworn-in in 2018.

“I’m operating for the US Senate as a result of I imagine we are able to construct a shared prosperity in Maryland that lifts everyone up and leaves nobody behind. That might be actually huge,” he mentioned in a video assertion asserting his candidacy on Tuesday.

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He’s a civil rights lawyer and activist, and beforehand served within the Obama administration as Affiliate Director of Public Engagement within the White Home and as an advisor to Training Secretary Arne Duncan. Jawando additionally wrote a memoir printed final 12 months entitled, “My Seven Black Fathers,” which displays on his mentorship and repair to his neighborhood.

As an at-large Montgomery County Councilmember, Jawando pushed for laws to scale back lease, construct extra inexpensive housing and tackle racial injustice, he mentioned in his video announcement.

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Will Jawando has served as an at-large Montgomery County council member since he was elected and sworn-in in 2018. (Getty)

“There is a Large Lie in America. Nevertheless it’s not about Donald Trump or his delusions that he received the election — the true Large Lie, the one you are feeling day by day, that pits neighbors towards neighbors, it is the one that claims, ‘For me to do properly, you need to do worse,’ that we are able to’t deal with one another, and nonetheless prosper, that if some individuals get forward, everybody else must be left behind,” Jawando mentioned within the video.

Jawando is the primary to announce his candidacy for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat.

Longtime Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin mentioned he will not search re-election. (AP Picture/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

On Monday, Jawando thanked Cardin for his service to the individuals of Maryland. Cardin served within the U.S. Senate since 2007 and had been a member of the U.S. Home of Representatives for the earlier 20 years. Earlier than serving in Washington, Cardin was within the Maryland Home of Delegates from 1967 till 1987.

“There are few individuals in Maryland, not to mention america Senate, which have delivered extra for working households than Senator Cardin,” Jawando wrote on Fb. “His tireless work has had a optimistic influence on our neighborhood and can be felt for generations of Marylanders for years to come back.”