The Maryland governor is looking to help GOP impeachment backers and others who have drawn Trump-supported challengers.
When Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler — a Trump impeachment backer whom the former president is aggressively targeting for defeat in 2022 — threw a fundraiser last month, she was accompanied by a fellow Republican who’d trekked from the other side of the country: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.
The foray was part of a broader effort Hogan is launching to bolster the ever-growing list of Republicans former President Donald Trump is trying to oust in this year’s midterm elections. Hogan has hosted fundraisers for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and he is looking at helping others, including Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, another impeachment supporter facing a Trump-endorsed Republican challenger. He has loudly advocated for the Republican Governors Association to defend Kemp and other sitting incumbents under fire, a position the organization has embraced.
With the initiative, Hogan — a popular blue-state GOP governor who has said he’s open to challenging Trump for the nomination in 2024 — is positioning himself as a staunch critic of the former president and a dissenting voice in a Trump-dominated Republican Party.
Hogan, who briefly flirted with waging a long-shot primary challenge to Trump in 2020, has begun building out a national political infrastructure. Last year, his supporters launched An America United, a nonprofit group that’s been promoting the governor as a bipartisan problem solver. Hogan, who cannot run for another term as governor next year, has also begun meeting with donors and speaking at national GOP events. In May, he is slated to speak at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute’s “Time for Choosing Speaker Series” about the future of the Republican Party, a forum that has drawn an array of would-be 2024 contenders.
His focus has also turned to helping the Republicans who’ve taken on the former president. Hogan’s nonprofit has begun running digital advertisements bolstering Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), a six-term congresswoman who is facing a challenge from Trump-backed Army veteran Joe Kent. The challenger has won financial support from, among others, tech billionaire Peter Thiel, a prominent conservative donor who met with Trump multiple times last year.
Why is he using Maryland taxpayers money to help anyone? Perhaps the rino could stay home and earn his taxpayer funded salary.
only because he’ll be outta of a job son and what else is this fat slob pos gonna do? hoping to pull in a few chits just in case one of these other idiots manages to stay in office! he bet on the wrong horse. maybe he should be suckin off xiden!
Hogan really is a moron. Trump the ONLY president in decades who has stood up against the tyrannical likes of rinos like hogan and marxist democrats. Hogan is ignorant & clueless on how much we hate the status quo of corruption coming from democrats and GOP supporters like Hogan. Hogan is a traitor to the GOP, MD residents and a free america. No way in hell he will ever be elected as the GOP nominee. You suck as gov of THE USSR of MD.
Larry you fat bald headed rhino POS!!
Larry apparently doesn’t get it. His folly. As campaigning gets going this summer he will soon realize that the ONLY candidates who are winning are Trump endorsed.
America has had enough of politicians like him.
Hogan is a communist and a traitor , jail time should happen immediately .
This is not a wise move by Hogan. Frankly I’m surprised that those Rinos would even want his so-called help. In a way I would like to see Hogan run against Trump for the Presidency just to watch him get crushed. A real disappointment to those that voted for him. Hogan could have done so many good things for the people but instead seemed to only want to please the democrats.
Hogan continues to be a major disappointment!! Instead of preparing to provide a viable Republican successor for the election ahead in Maryland he’s apparently inherited Zero’s fondness for mirror gazing while assuring himself he’s the best in the land.
The renegade Rinos who voted with the CommieDems in the impeachment charades deserve to be primaried and defeated so a genuine Republican can run for those seats. Hogan was certainly on Liz Cheney’s Holiday Card list the past two years.
If he runs, he knows he’s running as a spoiler, with implicit support from Pelousy and Chuckie Schemer. If he can’t actively help a Republican to win in MD in 2022, why would anyone be bothered to listen to him in 2024.
He’s a lame duck and the Assembly will have its way with him this year, with no regard to citizen’s wishes or needs, not that Larry ever prioritized those concerns.
Hey Larry
Didn’t you learn anything from your bff christy!
He was another one that Trump moped the floor with
Go ahead and try to run
That will be good entertainment
seems he should change parties and help the other Rhinos change theirs
Comrade Hogan is the biggest 2 faced a$$hole since Steele who turned BLUE after he lost the MD governor election. Hogan needs to use his money he profited from moving roads and other highway construction right aways to benefit him and his businesses for these travels instead of stealing / embezzling MD tax dollars under false pretenses, since these trips are not benefitting MD Taxpayers.