Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Hogan, Hero?

Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan just announced that he will not run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Apparently, Hogan remembered that governors of Maryland are never elected President.  Ask Martin O'Malley.

Hogan said he did not think he could be an effective candidate who could stop Donald Trump, and he fears that a candidacy on his part would help crowd the field with too many anti-Trump candidates who could split the vote against Trump and allow him to become the nominee again. 

Hogan is seen as a moderate.  He's a "moderate" who opposed O'Malley's stormwater fee to discourage overbuilding from developers (like Hogan), canceled the light rail line in Baltimore that would benefit blacks on the city's west side (Governor Moore is bringing it back), supported charter schools, and vetoed a bill to decriminalize possession of marijuana paraphernalia in Maryland (the veto was overridden).  Hogan is no hero (and this is the last sentence I'm interrupting with words in parentheses).

So who's the guy who's going to save the Republican Party from itself?  Chris Sununu?

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