Posted on 12/22/2020 6:27:24 AM PST by RandFan
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he "definitely is going to be part of the discussion" in helping to shape the Republican Party after President Trump leaves the White House.
The popular two-term governor with an expanding national profile told Fox News in an interview that he’d like to see the GOP "return to its roots" as a "more Reaganesque, bigger tent party" that can appeal to more voters.
Hogan is one of more than a dozen Republican politicians who are considered potential contenders for the party’s next presidential nomination. But with the president flirting with a 2024 bid to try and return to the White House, much of the field of possible hopefuls may be frozen in place as Trump will continue to dominate the GOP even after his term as president ends.
But Hogan, a vocal Trump critic and a pragmatic politician known to reach across the aisle, is one of the few potential presidential contenders who may not be affected by Trump’s flirtations.
"I’ve been a strong proponent of us returning to a more Reaganesque, bigger tent party where we can appeal to more people and reach out to large swaths of the electorate that have been turned off to the Donald Trump message," he argued.
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GOP roots are protectionist and nationalist. So Larry when do we start returning?
Donald Trump has made the Republican Party the biggest “tent” it has ever been.
Return to its roots? What roots are those?
This guy is an idiot.
The GOPe hated Reagan as much as they hate Trump. Even got a Bush family friend to try to assassinate the former.
I'm done with the Republican Party. Whatever the name of President Trump's new part is - MAGA, America First - I will be the first in line to change my affiliation to that.
I cannot express what I think should happen to this statist POS.
Better yet...let it curl up and die. It serves NO purpose...none for the good of this country.
Hogan has no idea what “Republican roots” are.
Republicans are so useless... smh
The Republican Party needs to be crushed to the point of extinction, then and only then could they possibly be rebuilt...
I will stay in the Republican Party, we have closed primaries in Florida and in some primary elections you can’t vote unless you are in the Republican Party, and in my area of Florida it’s pretty conservative and whoever wins the Republican Primary has no real opposition.
“I’ve been a strong proponent of us returning to a more Reaganesque, bigger tent party where we can appeal to more people and reach out to large swaths of the electorate that have been turned off to the Donald Trump message,” he argued.
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Trump got a larger % of the minority vote than Reagan got. The US of 2020-24 is nothing like the US of 1980-84. The people of our nation have less in common with one another than perhaps we ever have. Sure, we all want our good standard of living, material comforts, and an easy life, but beyond that we just don’t value the same things. How long can a country like that last?
Thank you, FoxNews. We are all taking notes on how we’ve been so misguided.
What area is that, I might just be another conservative vote in Florida when I can finally escape NY.
Larry buddy you had better fire your speech writer because he/ she is making you look like the moron you are.
. . . and gave John Anderson over 6% of the vote in 1980.Not enough to re-elect Jimmy Carter, who only got 41% - but still . . .
With the nationwide fraud that has been perfected, what makes this clown think he has even a tiny chance of the Presidency?
80 million people love Trump and Trump’s America First positions.
Those 80 million people have no interest in the America Last positions of Republican globalists.
Larry ... you won’t even win Maryland ...
Fascist, Shutdown Larry is no A. Lincoln.
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