DC: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is waiting until special counsel Robert Mueller issues a report on his findings before deciding on whether he will challenge President Donald Trump in the Republican primary for the 2020 presidential election.
“The whole country is waiting for this to come out,” Hogan told The Washington Post in an interview published Monday. “Don’t get the impression that I’m sitting here like this vulture waiting for some bad news.”
Hogan spent much of his interview criticizing Trump’s nationalism, saying, “I come from the Ronald Reagan school of politics.”
Hogan is a widely popular Republican governor in a generally liberal state who has strayed from the president on many turns since his election.
“I’m for a bigger tent, for coming up with ideas and solutions that can reach a wider audience,” Hogan said, adding, “I appeal to Republicans because my message is: I haven’t abandoned my principles. I’ve just said let’s deal in the art of the possible.”
Hogan speculated that “of course” he could not win a Republican primary challenge against Trump today, though he noted, “I also have been around long enough to know that things can change very rapidly … A lot can happen all spring and summer and into the fall.”
Hogan will face stiff criticism from within the Republican National Party with GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel saying at the Conservative Political Action Committee that anybody who challenges Trump “will lose horribly. more
Is it me or does he look like he lives in a van….down by the river?
@BocephusRex
He was stricken with cancer immediately after he won the gubernatorial election in 2014. For a while he looked pretty bad.
Aw jeez, I can see it now if he decides to run:
Hogan’s Heros!
A widely popular Republican in a Marxist state tells you all you need to know about him (we all knew Ronald Reagen and he ain’t no Ronald Reagen!
Yep – he’s a never Trumper and very center leaning. That’s the only way he survived the 2018 election…it didn’t hurt that the stooge the commiecrats ran against him was a total loser (Ben Jealous).
Newsflash, Tubby – that “report” probably won’t come out until the 2020 election.
Huck Larry Fogan, RINO! Sure, he’ll run against PDJT!
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“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Another answer to a question no one asked.
An indifferent nation yawns after googling “Who the fuck is Larry Hogan?”
I’m going to run for the Democrat nomination. If there’s one thing they need more of, it’s another white guy with a massive sense of entitlement.
If he’s a Big Tent Republican he has no principles.
Another Jeb, Mittens or Kasich .. RINO losers.
Yeah, that’s what we need, more middle of the road, squishy RINOs.
With his bulk, he looks like he’s wearing a tent. A NeverTrumper to the rescue of the Republican Party!
(Someone tell me to stop being snide.)
…sure, why not. Can they dig up Songbird’s McShame’s rotting corpse and run IT while they’re at it. After all, he voted Democrat in life and death, and he has physical corruption to go with his political corruption now, so he’d fit in PERFECTLY with the President Trump opposition on EITHER side of the aisle…
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I can’t say why but I think Rove prefers the bad liar, progressive from Fla. The 1 who in the leftist GOP response (contrasted to the conservative GOP response shortly thereafter)to the SotU about 8 years ago started out by making 3 very conservative statements of his beliefs in the first 45 sec.
Then he spent the next 300 seconds proving each of those statements was a liberal lie. Slow witted Mario, after belying each of his opening remarks, stopped, thought ,said to himself”Gee, I just proved to the whole world I’m a Bush liar”; and took a drink!
3 times he proved himself to be a Bush liar; each time thinking to himself “I just showed them I’m a leftist liar” .
Conservatives mocked Mario without mercy the next week. He “went to ground”.
But he has come back. And on Fox Rove has been vociferously touting him the last few months. Maybe, just to let the progressive Sen.Mitt know he has not support in the liberal GOP family.
I dont know why; but Karl hsa been hawking Mario lately.
Maryland is not exactly noted as a bastion of conservative thought…
Psssst Larry, Mueller could come out and say Trump, Putin and Kim Jung-Un are on video in a threesome and you still wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance.
No!!!! Not uncle Festor…
GOP “moderates” have to lean left to meet approval from the media. Democrats never lean.
By the time the Mueller report comes out in 2040 he’ll be too old to run. Or too dead.
smot moov dar Big Goo.
butt you still know less than that know nothing Master Sergeant Schultz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsXrpxo4uC0
and everybody still loves Master Sergeant Schultz
Oh yeah, he is a Reagan conservative, now that history has shown how popular and successful Reagan was. At the time he was probably against Reagan just like all the other Slimepublican RINO’s.
“challenging Trump” to what, a spittin contest? It has to be a challenge for him just to get out of bed in the morning.
HOGAN!!!! Thirty days in the cooler!!!
My vote is with LeBeau. Unless Trump is still running.
LeBeau 2024!!!
Plus, didn’t Colonel Hogan die in a mysterious fire?
So, yeah. LeBeau vs. the dead burnt up guy.
Never Trump? Never YOU Hogan. KMA, SMD, FOAD.
Excuse me RINO Fatboy. You have ZERO chance. ZERO.
Turd is about as republican as Smucky Choomer.
He signs the gun control bill(s) that the Maryland legislature is passing he is dead meat in Maryland as well as the rest of the country.