Maryland
Maryland Republicans dismiss Biden visit
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — With a possible pink wave approaching Election Tuesday, President Joe Biden is visiting a strongly-blue state in Maryland and Republicans are dismissing his bid to rally democrats into voting for Democrats.
“The fact is that our nation is made up of extra than simply Democrats, extra than simply Independents, extra than simply Republicans,” mentioned District 3 Congressional Candidate Yuripzy Morgan (R), “It’s made up of communities similar to ours. So that is our response to the division that we’re seeing in Washington D.C. and too usually trickles proper all the way down to our personal houses.”
With the stability of energy in Congress at stake on this election, Biden has been noticeably absent from the battleground states.
“I may see that. His insurance policies aren’t the very best. They’re not extremely popular,” mentioned Maryland Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford (R), “I imply he’s a pleasant man. I’ve met his earlier than, however he’s not operating or I ought to say he’s not governing the best way he mentioned he was going to manipulate. He’s not governing as a centrist and he’s listening to the extremes of his occasion and that’s a problem I believe for most individuals.”
The query now could be whether or not any pink wave would extra resemble a ripple right here in Maryland.
On the prime of the GOP ticket is Delegate Dan Cox’s bid for governor, which many Republican candidates view as much less of a assist, than a hindrance.
Efforts to succeed in Cox for touch upon the president’s go to has been unsuccessful.
Delegate Reid Novotny is attempting to unseat incumbent State Senator Katie Fry Hester, and he says she’s attempting unfairly to color him as a pro-Trump, January 6th candidate, very similar to Cox.
“My opponent truly put me in an image in entrance of the Capitol because it was burning,” mentioned Novotny, “You understand the place I used to be on January 6th, 2021? I’m within the Nationwide Guard. I used to be truly serving on COVID order defending the good folks of Maryland in uniform.”
Yet one more problem in a state the place registered Democrats outnumber Republicans two-to-one.