{"id":2327985,"date":"2024-08-20T22:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T02:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/angela-alsobrooks-ties-herself-to-harris-during-dnc-speech-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T22:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T02:51:01","slug":"angela-alsobrooks-ties-herself-to-harris-during-dnc-speech-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/angela-alsobrooks-ties-herself-to-harris-during-dnc-speech-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Alsobrooks ties herself to Harris during DNC speech &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fangela-alsobrooks-ties-herself-to-harris-during-dnc-speech-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2327985&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-graham-careening-away-from-karine-jean-pierre\/\" title=\"Tim Graham: Careening Away From Karine Jean-Pierre\">prime-time speech<\/a> at the Democratic National Convention, Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for Maryland&#8217;s Senate race and Prince George\u2019s County\u2062 Executive, highlighted \u200bher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-expects-ties-visit-by-morocco-to-israel-next-week\/\" title=\"Netanyahu expects ties visit by Morocco to Israel next week\">close ties<\/a> with Vice President Kamala Harris. Alsobrooks praised Harris&#8217;s achievements, particularly her &#8220;Back on Track&#8221; program aimed at providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-fearing-saudi-arabia-wont-penalize-mbs-after-he-promised-during-election-that-he-would-hold-saudi-leaders-accountable-reports\/\" title=\"Biden, \u2018Fearing\u2019 Saudi Arabia, \u2018Won\u2019t Penalize\u2019 MBS After He Promised During Election That He Would Hold Saudi Leaders Accountable: Reports\">nonviolent offenders<\/a> with opportunities for job training and education, which Alsobrooks\u200b implemented in Maryland with Harris&#8217;s support. She reminisced about first learning of Harris&#8217;s influential work as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-cultural-change-coming-to-america\/\" title=\"Radical Cultural Change Coming to America?\">district attorney<\/a> \u200din San Francisco and emphasized their 14-year friendship, calling Harris a &#8220;friend, a mentor, and a role model.&#8221; As Alsobrooks campaigns against former Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, she seeks to increase her visibility within\u200b the state. Senator Gary Peters endorsed Alsobrooks&#8217;s\u200d potential, stating that her speech offers her a platform to connect with voters. Harris has publicly supported Alsobrooks in prior events, recognizing her as a strong candidate for the Senate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Angela Alsobrooks ties herself to Harris during prime-time speech at DNC<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1734119\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>CHICAGO &mdash;<\/strong> Prince George&rsquo;s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/maryland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Maryland\">Maryland<\/a>&rsquo;s Senate race, tethered herself to Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> during her prime-time speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Alsobrooks, a longtime ally of the vice president, praised Harris&rsquo;s record as a district attorney in San Francisco during her remarks and touted Harris&rsquo;s creation of the &ldquo;Back on Track&rdquo; program in California &ndash; a program that Alsobrooks said she replicated in Maryland with Harris&rsquo;s help.<\/p>\n<p>The program provides nonviolent offenders the opportunity to get job training, help getting their GED, and apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland Democrat, who has held a 14-year friendship with Harris, called the vice president a &ldquo;friend, a mentor, and a role model.&rdquo; Alsobrooks explained during her speech that she first heard about Harris while reading a magazine article in 2009 as she was running for Prince George&rsquo;s County state&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-the-number-of-indefinitely-confined-wisconsin-voters-who-can-vote-without-ids-increased-from-60000-in-2016-to-over-200000-in-2020\/\" title=\"Confirmed: The Number of &#039;Indefinitely Confined&#039; Wisconsin Voters Who Can Vote without IDs Increased from 60,000 in 2016 to Over 200,000 in 2020\">attorney&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I read a story in Essence magazine about a district attorney in San Francisco using new ideas to keep her community safe. Few had a better record prosecuting crime,&rdquo; Alsobrooks said. &ldquo;She put rapists, child molesters, and murderers behind bars.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &ldquo;After reading about this super-bad district attorney, I talked non-stop about her on the campaign trail. Two days after I won the election, my phone rings. It&rsquo;s Kamala Harris, calling to congratulate me and ask how could help.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Alsobrooks&rsquo;s touting of her friendship with Harris, as well as her past as a state&rsquo;s attorney, comes as she is engaged in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4737126-alsobrooks-leads-hogan-senate-poll\/\">competitive Senate race<\/a> with former Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.<strong><br \/><\/strong>While speaking to reporters ahead of Alsobrooks&rsquo;s speech, Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) called the Senate candidate &ldquo;talented&rdquo; and &ldquo;passionate,&rdquo; but conceded that she needs to be &ldquo;better known in the state&rdquo; if she hopes to win her race.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This gives her a platform to let people know about who she is, what makes her tick, and what she&rsquo;s passionate about. I&rsquo;m confident she&rsquo;s going to do an outstanding job and that&rsquo;ll help her in her race for Maryland.&rdquo;<strong><br \/><\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong>Harris and Alsobrooks have appeared together on the campaign trail in Maryland a couple of times, and Alsobrooks also attended Harris&rsquo;s first joint appearance with President Joe Biden since Harris secured the Democratic nomination last week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to recognize your next United States senator Angela Alsobrooks,&rdquo; Harris said while recognizing Maryland&rsquo;s leaders present at the event. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve worked with her over the years, I&rsquo;m telling you Maryland, you&rsquo;re going to do a great thing when you send her to the United States Senate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In her Tuesday night speech, Alsobrooks also attacked former President Donald Trump, saying that &ldquo;ever since Donald Trump rode down that ridiculous escalator, we as a nation have been trapped.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are still frozen by the fear that Donald Trump might once again come to power,&rdquo; she continued. &ldquo;Kamala has reminded us that we don&rsquo;t need to fear anything. Not the future, and certainly not that man.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alsobrooks, who would be the nation&rsquo;s third black senator if she wins her race, ended her speech with an appeal to black Americans and women voters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For the ancestors who sat at lunch counters and made sure that we all had the right to vote, we are not going back. For the mothers and grandmothers who marched to make sure that women could control our own bodies, we are not going back.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know that we can endure for a night because joy cometh in the morning. Morning is coming. And that joy is Kamala Harris,&rdquo; Alsobrooks concluded.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1734119\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1734119\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for Maryland&#8217;s Senate race and Prince George\u2019s County Executive, closely aligned herself with Vice President Kamala Harris during her prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night. Alsobrooks, who has been a supporter of Harris for many years, commended Harris&#8217;s achievements as a district attorney in San Francisco and highlighted the &#8220;Back on Track&#8221; program she established in California\u2014a program that Alsobrooks said she implemented in Maryland with Harris&#8217;s assistance. This initiative offers nonviolent offenders access to job training, GED support, and apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>Alsobrooks described her long-standing friendship with Harris over the past 14 years, referring to her as a &#8220;friend, mentor, and role model.&#8221; She recounted how she first learned about Harris while reading an article in Essence magazine back in 2009 while campaigning for Prince George\u2019s County state\u2019s attorney. \u201cI read about a district attorney in San Francisco using innovative methods to enhance community safety,\u201d Alsobrooks noted. \u201cFew had a better record of prosecuting crime; she put rapists, child molesters, and murderers behind bars.\u201d She added that after winning her election two days later, she received a congratulatory call from Kamala Harris asking how she could assist.<\/p>\n<p>As Alsobrooks campaigns against former Republican Governor Larry Hogan for the Senate seat, her emphasis on her connection with Harris is significant. Ahead of her speech, Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) acknowledged that while Alsobrooks is &#8220;talented&#8221; and &#8220;passionate,&#8221; she needs greater recognition within Maryland to succeed. He expressed confidence that this platform would help raise awareness about who she is and what drives her.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has joined Alsobrooks on several campaign events in Maryland recently; during one such event where both appeared alongside President Joe Biden after his nomination last week, Harris praised Alsobrooks by stating that sending her to the U.S. Senate would be beneficial for Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to supporting Biden-Harris policies during her speech Tuesday night, Alsobrooks criticized former President Donald Trump by saying that since he announced his candidacy by descending an escalator \u201cwe as a nation have been trapped.\u201d She emphasized ongoing fears regarding Trump&#8217;s potential return to power but reassured listeners through references made by Kamala: \u201cWe don\u2019t need to fear anything\u2014not our future or certainly not him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If elected as senator\u2014making history as only the third Black woman senator\u2014Alsobrooks concluded with an appeal directed at Black Americans and women voters: \u201cFor those ancestors who fought for our rights at lunch counters&#8230; we are not going back&#8230; We know we can endure through hardship because joy comes in the morning\u2014and morning is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2966,"featured_media":2327986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Alsobrooks-dnc.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[38764,38697,32438,32171,32076],"class_list":["post-2327985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-angela-alsobrooks","tag-dnc-speech","tag-kamala-harris","tag-political-commentary","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Alsobrooks-dnc.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}