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By Tashi McQueen
AFRO Political Writer
tmcqueen@afro.com
At a campaign rally at the Kentland Community Center in Landover, Md., Vice President Kamala Harris (D) endorsed the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks.
“I was so proud to support her when she was state’s attorney and to endorse her when she was county executive. Today, I then proudly endorse Angela Alsobrooks for the United States Senate,” said Harris, amidst the cheers of the crowd on June 7. “She was the first assistant state’s attorney in Prince George’s County, Md., to specialize in domestic violence cases. To be here to support her today is to know she will be an experienced leader on this issue.”
The event also addressed National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
Throughout the gathering, leaders emphasized that the leading cause of death for children and teens in the U.S. is guns, according to the CDC. Speakers put emphasis on voters to choose those candidates and leaders that will support gun safety regulations on the federal level.
“Together we can break the cycle of gun violence and create a world where safety is given, not a privilege, in every community,” said Isabella Socha Soares, social lead for the Students Demand Action-University of Maryland chapter of Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit gun control advocacy organization. “Students all over the country want to feel safe and not fear that they might go to school and not come home. I fight as a student not because I want to, but because I have to for students across the nation and for future generations.”
Gov. Wes Moore (D) and more top Maryland Democrats were present, supporting Alsobrooks and other Democratic nominees in this year’s general election.
“Today, tomorrow and all the way through November, we are going to ride with Angela Alsobrooks. We’re going to ride with the Biden-Harris Administration,” said Moore. “We have to have the right leaders in place who are going to fortify our future, who are going to actually use their time and their energy and their power to increase freedoms and not to decrease them.”
Alsobrooks outlined what she would do as senator about crime and gun violence prevention.
“As a senator, I’ll stand for common sense approaches to make sure that firearms don’t end up in the hands of the wrong people, who can’t pass a background check,” she said. “I won’t back down from holding gun manufacturers accountable.”
Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, former Governor Larry Hogan’s campaign responded to the event via X, a social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“While Angela Alsobrooks is campaigning today, instead of just offering more platitudes, we urge her to tell voters how she will address the skyrocketing crime on her watch in Prince George’s County, Md.,” reads the statement. “Hogan has put forward a plan to address this out-of-control crime wave by funding law enforcement, taking repeat violent criminals off the streets and getting guns out of the hands of violent criminals and the mentally ill.”
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