It doesn't look great, but it is not over . . . wait until the final tally of the Gov absentee ballots, then look at the legislative committee makeups in the spring, esp. in the MD Senate.
The important Senate cmte is Judicial Proceedings (JPR), the one that hears all the gun-related bills.
Election results for JPR:
Pro-gun-owners: down two
Giannetti is out, Jimeno retired, so the Senate JPR cmte will need these TWO slots filled. Stone is coming back. These three guys made up almost half of the eight Democrats on the JPR committee, and these three were all pro-gun-owner.
Sens. Jacobs (R), Haines (R), and Mooney (R) are coming back. All pro-gun-owner. So with Stone (D), we have four pro-gun-owners coming back, and then we need two more to have a majority.
Anti-gun-owners: down two
Leo Green, the cmte co-chair, and Ralph Hughes, both (D) rabid anti-gun-owners, have retired. Lose two for the anti-gun-owners.
So, we need to see who will fill these FOUR open (D) slots on JPR before employing the siege engine and declaring that "it's ON!" .
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Edited to add
Ehrlich concedes , so the Senate it is . . .