Democrats vying for Senate to appear at forum

With less than one month to primary election day, The Baltimore Sun will host a live U.S. Senate Democratic primary forum Friday in partnership with WBFF FOX45 and the University of Baltimore’s Schaefer Center for Public Policy.

Candidates U.S. Rep. David Trone and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks have confirmed they will participate. A new poll from The Sun, FOX45 and UB’s Schaefer Center, conducted April 7-10, showed the multimillionaire Trone leading two-term Prince George’s County Executive Alsobrooks by 19 percentage points among a sample of likely Democratic primary voters.

The poll’s sample of likely Republican voters showed former Gov. Larry Hogan with an overwhelming advantage in the GOP field for the May 14 primary, while the nearly 1,300 likely general election voters polled statewide favored Hogan over either Trone or Alsobrooks.

FOX45 anchor Kai Jackson will moderate the Alsobrooks-Trone forum at the station’s studio. Sun national politics reporter Jeff Barker, FOX45 political reporter Mikenzie Frost and Dean Roger Hartley of UB’s College of Public Affairs will serve as panelists.

The forum will be shown live Friday on FOX45 and WJLA 24/7 from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. and streamed live at baltimoresun.com, foxbaltimore.com and ubalt. edu. Also, the forum will air Saturday on FOX45 at 2 p.m., on WNUV-TV at 4 p.m., and on WJLA-TV in Washington from 11:35 p.m. to 12:35 a.m. After the broadcast, the forum will be available online at baltimoresun. com, ubalt.edu and foxbaltimore.com.