Update – 8:20 a.m. Tuesday – With just a little over a week left until the Nov. 4 general election in Maryland, the candidates for governor are making an all-out push for votes.
Locals will have a chance to meet Democratic candidate Anthony Brown on Tuesday. Brown is scheduled to appear outside the Bethesda Metro station at 7:30 a.m.
On Monday, Brown's schedule indicated he would travel to Bethesda Bagels on Bethesda Row at 9:30 a.m., but his schedule changed Tuesday and now he plans to have coffee with Somerset Mayor Jeffrey Slavin at 9:15 a.m., then appear at the Montgomery County Field Office at 7883 Woodmont Ave. for a special endorsement event at 10:15 a.m.
Republican candidate Larry Hogan held a speedy press conference last week at The Original Pancake House in Bethesda with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Christie, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, is scheduled to appear again with Christie in Glen Burnie on Tuesday morning.
The race between Hogan, an Annapolis businessman, and Brown, the state’s lieutenant governor, has been drawing closer as the election nears. After the June primary, Brown held nearly a 20-point lead over Hogan, but that had dropped to less than 10 points by the beginning of October, according to Real Clear Politics.
Both candidates have racked up endorsements from newspapers around the state, with Brown picking up the bigger outlets—The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post—while Hogan has the support of more regional papers including The Capital in Annapolis, The Carroll County Times and the Montgomery Gazette, according to a Post report that summarizes the endorsements.
