How a Trump-allied super PAC is ramping up 'scathing attacks' in critical Senate race: report

Maryland's future, a conservative super PAC, is moving full steam ahead on its efforts to help GOP Senate candidate and former Governor Larry Hogan ramp up "scathing attacks on his opponent, Democrat Angela Alsobrooks," The Washington Post reports.

"Getting Hogan was a coup for recruiting," Cook Political Report analyst Jessica Taylor told the Post. "This was a seat that Democrats weren’t even going to have to think of before. If they spend money here, it’s going to take away from other states that they need to defend."

Per the report, the "deep-pocketed super PAC" set aside "$18.3 million in airtime during the last six weeks of the race," and "several of the group’s conservative donors have also invested heavily to back Republicans in other states — some moderate and some in line with former president Donald Trump’s far-right politics — who are in close contests that could flip congressional seats from blue to red."

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In June, Hogan released an ad days after he received an endorsement from Donald Trump, emphasizing that he doesn't identify with the current state of the Republican Party.

"Sometimes party loyalty demands too much," Hogan said.

But during an MSNBC interview earlier this week, Alsobrooks declared, "He’s on their team. It’s the reason why we’ve seen even this week 18 million additional dollars by his billionaire Republican friends, who likewise recognize he’s on their team and that electing him hands over control of the Senate to the Republican Party."

The Post notes, "Maryland’s Future entered the late-summer sprint toward Election Day with nearly $16 million in the bank from conservative donors as of June 30."

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