Morning Digest: A major endorsement could shake up Maryland's Senate primary

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● MD-Sen: Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, who trails Rep. David Trone in the polls, is hoping that a new endorsement from the Washington Post will help her turn her fortunes around with a month to go before Maryland's primaries.

In a Thursday editorial backing her for the Democratic nod, the Post praised Alsobrooks' record in office and noted she "would bring valuable diversity to the Senate" as "the first Black woman elected statewide in Maryland."

While it's rare these days for newspaper endorsements to have an impact at the ballot box, the Post's could be the exception. As Inside Elections’ Jacob Rubashkin alludes, the paper remains influential in Montgomery County, which is the state's largest and borders Washington, D.C., just opposite Prince George's.