Candidates trade barbs amid the crabs and hush puppies at Tawes

July 18, 2018 Comments Off on Candidates trade barbs amid the crabs and hush puppies at Tawes

‘There's a great crowd and a nice energy,’ says Gov. Larry Hogan of the J. Millard Tawes Crab and Clam Bake, the annual political gathering in Crisfield, where he has become one of the most popular attendees. (Bryan P. Sears/The Daily Record)

Like salmon swimming upstream to spawn and swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, July in Maryland for some means the J. Millard Tawes Crab and Clam Bake, a migration to a far-flung edge of the map for what some call the "midsummer classic" of state politics.

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