Posted on 03/05/2023 8:29:00 AM PST by KevinB
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Larry Hogan, the former Republican governor of Maryland who positioned himself as one of his party’s fiercest critics of Donald Trump, said Sunday he will not challenge the ex-president for the GOP’s White House nomination in 2024.
“I would never run for president to sell books or position myself for a Cabinet role,” the 66-year-old Hogan wrote in The New York Times. “I have long said that I care more about ensuring a future for the Republican Party than securing my own future in the Republican Party. And that is why I will not be seeking the Republican nomination for president.”
The move is a recognition that while many in the GOP are considering ways to move on from the Trump era, there is little appetite among primary voters for such a vocal critic of the former president. Other prominent Trump adversaries, including former Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, don’t appear to be making moves toward a campaign at the moment.
For now, that leaves Trump as the leading figure in the early field of Republican candidates.
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Without Hairy Larry Hogan we are doomed! Doomed I say!
Hard to believe he’d turn down all the free food.
In other news, Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
“Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, don’t appear to be making moves”
Hope they watched the CPAC speech last night. It’s quite clear that neither of these two losers could get 2% of the votes put together.
Ok, so he’s not quite as dumb as he looks.
I heard from Mark Levin that Hogan, Christie and Sununu got together recently but not on a boat because it would have capsized. And they all decided Chris Sununu should be the one to run for the Lincoln Project vote.
oh PHEW! That was a close one! /s
ROFL
Someone approached him and said:
You have no money.
You have no donors.
You will get no money or donors.
Discreet polling shows that Republican voters either don’t know who you are or outright loathe hearing your name, let alone the sight of you or hearing you talk.
You will embarrass yourself and your family, so go back to doing whatever it was you were doing before you became Governor.
One more thing, you might want to stop being one of the ‘go to Never Trumpers’ on Sunday morning. If he wins in 2024, he just might come after you and it won’t be pretty.
What happened, Larry?
Everybody was waiting for you to throw it down on the ground!
That leaves a path wide open for Asa Hutchinson to sweep in and snatch the nomination.
“Other prominent Trump adversaries, including former Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois”
Prominent=primaried
The same Hogan who recently said “I don’t know why Republicans get involved with social issues like transgenderism.”
Unless it embraces MAGA and supprts Trump, then it HAS NO FUTURE. There is no going back to the "managed decline" party. We tasted MAGA in 2 years ago and we liked it.
Kasich/Cheney in.... NEVER.
The nation scratches its collective head and wonders “Who?”
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