Rep. David Trone ( D., Md. ), is being spurned by six House Democrats. ), the pioneer in Maryland’s Democrat Senate primary, after he used a racial slur to harm Republicans during a recent House reading.
In the days after he used the slur, Trone’s opponent in the Democratic primary, Prince George’s County executive Angela Alsobrooks, received endorsements from Democratic representatives Barbara Lee ( Calif. ), Yvette Clarke ( N. Y. ), Gregory Meeks ( N. Y. ), Joyce Beatty ( Ohio ), and Jasmine Crockett ( Texas ), according to Axios. Lee described Alsobrooks’s words as” sorely missing in the Senate”, while Clarke said,” Her perception and dignity make her the best choice to symbolize Maryland in the Senate”.
Alsobrooks received another endorsement from Rep. Jamie Raskin ( D., Maryland ) on Monday. ).
The testimonials came just days after Trone made the public use of the word” jigaboo,” a “insulting and contemptuous name for a black people” that, according to the Merriam-Webster vocabulary, dates back to the early 1900s. During the Thursday House hearing on President Joe Biden’s request for a 2025 resources, Trone told a Democratic jigaboo that “people who have never work a company” that the tax rate is the reason why business investment is being stopped.  ,
The pioneer in the state’s Democratic primary eventually claimed he meant to say “bugaboo” and apologized. I made up my words and omitted an offensive expression. Trone said,” I regret having inadvertently used the term the way I learned it, and I apologize,” adding that he should not have because he is a wealthy white man.  ,
According to a poll conducted on Wednesday, both Trone and Alsobrooks did lose to the Republican-leaning former governor Larry Hogan by double digits. Hogan surpassed Bothbrooks by 50 % to 37 % and Trone by 50 %, according to the Washington Post- University of Maryland poll. The results also showed that 64 percent of Maryland citizens look on Hogan favorably, compared with just 33 percent for Trone and 26 percent for Alsobrooks.  ,
