After a Bernie Sanders sweep out west over the weekend, it appears that Maryland is also in play for the Democrats.Download the WBAL appThe Sanders campaign set up shop Monday in Baltimore.During a tour of west Baltimore last December, Sanders described it like this: "What you look at is what a third-world country would look like."Fast-forward three months, and Sanders' campaign is back in Maryland, a state not usually still in play by late April.But with victories over the weekend, Sanders has a newly formed ground game in the state, with former NAACP President Ben Jealous the steering committee chair."There is no way to win the nomination without coming through Maryland, without picking up significant numbers of delegates, and Bernie knows that," Jealous said.With some of Sanders' national campaign staff on hand, the steering committee made the announcement at its headquarters, the Freddie Gray Empowerment Center.It's a symbolic location for a campaign looking to capture African-American votes with messages of economic and social justice."Because before we were practically invisible, so now it's time for us to come together, organize and mobilize our issues, and I feel like Bernie Sanders speaks to this population," Sanders supporter Chris Wilson said.The latest polls in Maryland show Hillary Clinton with a 30-point edge over the Vermont senator. The Clinton machine has been up and running in Maryland since last fall."So it'll be an uphill climb, but our campaign has a history of coming from behind, closing gaps, and that's what we plan to do in Maryland," Symone Sanders, of the Sanders campaign, said.There are 118 delegate up for grabs in Maryland, but it's not a winner-take-all scenario, which means that both candidates could come away with pieces of the political pie.

After a Bernie Sanders sweep out west over the weekend, it appears that Maryland is also in play for the Democrats.

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The Sanders campaign set up shop Monday in Baltimore.

During a tour of west Baltimore last December, Sanders described it like this: "What you look at is what a third-world country would look like."

Fast-forward three months, and Sanders' campaign is back in Maryland, a state not usually still in play by late April.

But with victories over the weekend, Sanders has a newly formed ground game in the state, with former NAACP President Ben Jealous the steering committee chair.

"There is no way to win the nomination without coming through Maryland, without picking up significant numbers of delegates, and Bernie knows that," Jealous said.

With some of Sanders' national campaign staff on hand, the steering committee made the announcement at its headquarters, the Freddie Gray Empowerment Center.

It's a symbolic location for a campaign looking to capture African-American votes with messages of economic and social justice.

"Because before we were practically invisible, so now it's time for us to come together, organize and mobilize our issues, and I feel like Bernie Sanders speaks to this population," Sanders supporter Chris Wilson said.

The latest polls in Maryland show Hillary Clinton with a 30-point edge over the Vermont senator. The Clinton machine has been up and running in Maryland since last fall.

"So it'll be an uphill climb, but our campaign has a history of coming from behind, closing gaps, and that's what we plan to do in Maryland," Symone Sanders, of the Sanders campaign, said.

There are 118 delegate up for grabs in Maryland, but it's not a winner-take-all scenario, which means that both candidates could come away with pieces of the political pie.