Julie Tsirkin is a correspondent covering Capitol Hill.
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Maryland’s Senate race was supposed to be a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. Instead, it’s turned into something else: a key race in the battle for the Senate majority. Former GOP Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to run for the state’s open Senate seat scrambled the stakes, and now Democrats competing in Tuesday’s primary aren’t just making the case about what type of Democrat should be in the Senate.
But Trone has also stumbled on the subject of race, grabbing headlines earlier this year for using a racial slur during a congressional hearing, which he said was an inadvertent slip when addressing Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, who is Black. “While attempting to use the word ‘bugaboo’ in a hearing, I used a phrase that is offensive,” he said at the time. “That word has a long, dark, terrible history. It should never be used any time, anywhere, in any conversation.
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