A Republican Challenge to Trump?
Larry Hogan can offer a serious and meaningful alternative to the corroded conservatism we have in Washington today.
By Bret Stephens - Jan. 18, 2019
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Larry Hogan, the recently re-elected centrist Republican governor of Maryland, isn’t about to announce — but neither will he rule out a run. “I’m very frustrated and concerned about the direction of the Republican Party and the country,” he tells me in a phone interview on Friday.
Later he adds: “There are an awful lot of people who are looking for a voice that represents the people who feel disaffected.” And: “I do want to be more of a voice of reason and moderation in the Republican Party.”
Hogan is attracting notice partly because he just romped to re-election over the progressive Democrat Ben Jealous — becoming the first G.O.P. governor to win re-election in Maryland since 1954 — and partly because he’s one of only three Republican governors in deep-blue states (Massachusetts’s Charlie Baker and Vermont’s Phil Scott are the other two). His approval rating is 68 percent in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1.
But mostly Hogan makes no secret of his disdain for the president, though he goes out of his way to avoid mentioning his name. In his second inaugural address this week (written with the help of Mark Salter, John McCain’s old wordsmith), he merely noted that his father, the late Congressman Lawrence Hogan, was “the first Republican to come out for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.”
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More: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/o...rry-hogan.html
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