"The brightest hope right now is Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who last year became the first Republican governor to be re-elected in the deep-blue state, with a 13-point margin. . . .Defending Democracy Together, a group run by conservative journalist Bill Kristol, believes there already exists an appetite among GOP voters for a change atop the party, if only a strong candidate would exploit it. The group, armed with polling and focus group data it commissioned specifically for this pitch, has held discussions with Hogan and, it claims, other potentially interested prominent Republicans it is declining to name.":
Inside the secret Republican plot to take down Trump in 2020Earlier today I read a report on poling of MD voters regarding Hogan and a possible presidential run. I think that 80% in the Dem majority state said they approve of him as governor. However, 55% did not want him to run for President. I don’t know how his family would feel about a run when he just recovered from a serious bout with cancer.