Democrat Angela Alsobrooks and Republican Larry Hogan will meet Thursday in the only scheduled debate in a U.S. Senate contest competitive enough to attract attention and heavyweight donors from both national parties.

Democratic Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks is leading Republican rival Larry Hogan by 9 points in a poll of the Maryland race released Wednesday, less than a month before the election.

Angela Alsobrooks leads Larry Hogan — 48 percent to 39 percent — among likely voters in a UMBC Institute of Politics poll.