Appearing Thursday on Bloomberg TV, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) claimed “a couple” of President Donald Trump’s cabinet secretaries urged him to consider launching a primary challenge against the president in the 2020 election.
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Gov. Larry Hogan tells me “a couple” of Pres. Trump’s cabinet secretaries encouraged him to consider challenging Trump in a primary.
— Hogan declined to say who bc he “wouldn’t want to see a couple of friends be fired.”
via @BloombergTV @BloombergRadio
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— Kevin Cirilli (@kevcirilli) July 23, 2020
A transcript is as follows:
KEVIN CIRILLI: Larry Hogan writes that members of President Trump’s Cabinet urged him to consider challenging President Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. He writes, “The media was also enamored by the idea of a popular Republican governor, a real Republican, with a proven record of electoral success going toe to toe with Donald Trump inside the GOP… but cabinet secretaries? Encouraging me to run for president agains their boss for president? That one surprised me.” That is a stunning revelation. How many and which members of the president’s cabinet told you to consider running against him?
GOV. LARRY HOGAN: There were only a couple and I am not going to reveal the names because they are private conversations, and I certainly would not want to see a couple of friends fired from the administration… I don’t think it comes as any surprise to folks that there are a lot of people in the administration who have sometimes spoken out here and there. It was just one small thing to mention in the book. Certainly not a main focus of anything we were talking about. I did not have any kind of a serious effort to try to run for president. But a lot of people are encouraging me. I was surprised to hear how close some of these folks were in the White House.
CIRILLI: What was there primary motivation?
GOV. HOGAN: I think it was a little bit of a concern about losing the election and when the bottom is going to drop out of this thing and what was the alternative. And could we find someone who could perhaps put together a winning coalition in the fall.
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Wow! He wishes! WHAT A MEGALOMANIAC!
ReplyDeleteNow we're seeing what a power hungry narcissist Hogan really is. Ashamed I voted for him. But in the end he couldn't care less about us.
ReplyDeleteLiar Liar pants on Fire
ReplyDeleteHe will wash out like O'Malley
ReplyDeleteLH only in your deluded brain does anyone want you for President. Frankly no one wants you as governor. Although you are a better alternative to Franchot.
ReplyDeleteHe would do no better than O'Malley did.
ReplyDeleteThis really helps hogan thanks.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun joke. The big fat rino is nothing but a liar. Only a democrat would vote for him
ReplyDeleteYea right fat boy
ReplyDeletehogan's a FAT ASS RINO LYING SON OF A BITCH
ReplyDeleteWould some more cabinet secretaries please tell Hogan to jump off the Bay Bridge, because that would be an even bigger winning coalition.
ReplyDeleteThink about it....since when has this lying sack given two cents about republicans losing to dems...I mean he and all his best buds are dems, its just they live a life of lies.
Hogan is delusional
ReplyDeleteThis boys fat head is getting bigger everyday. Sure Trump has some trash in the swamp. But this dude believes he is worthy of the White House
ReplyDeletea "Real Republican Governor"?????? LOL! You must mean the RINO Maryland has now, Hogan the Terrible. No one would vote for that fool if he ran as a "Republican". His hate for Trump plays out every day of this economy crashing lockdown over a mere 4.5% (inflated) covid rate when people not tested are being called with "positive" results.
ReplyDeleteMartin O'Malley could beat him at this point!
This is ajoke rihgt sit down & STFU LARR . You dont stand a chance in hell comrade
ReplyDeleteWell he wouldn’t be any threat to Dumbocrats! He ain’t even a threat against Day!!
ReplyDeleteWhat happens in the governors office that makes these guys think do highly of themselves? Can’t wait for Hogan to take his shirt off and play the guitar!
ReplyDeleteGive it up "Bush" boy Hogan.
ReplyDeleteHogan has quite an ego.
ReplyDeleteGosh, so you guys are saying you don't like me any more?
ReplyDelete...Larry
Only an idiot would suggest consideration of Hogan.
ReplyDeleteGOP Gov. Hogan: Trump Cabinet Secretaries Urged Me to Primary President
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! What a lying sack of $hit! Fat BasTURD!
Hogan has always been a Never Trumper...still not a good Governor...plays the middle like a fiddle...shame on him.
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ReplyDeleteLarry's accomplishment, and it's a real one, is getting elected and re-elected running as a Republican in MD. That's genuine fact.
We can speculate that Annapolis would be an even bigger mess had his opponents won. He's closer to a Rockefeller Republican than a Reagan Republican. So perhaps he kept the Dems from going hog wild, but they certainly went piglet wild. Marylanders chose the lesser of two evils, and we're lucky they did. That's a fact, too.
Absolutely none of which translates into any groundswell for him in real Republican areas in a run for the White House. Could he win a Senate seat? Perhaps. His big task now is to lay the groundwork for a Republican successor as Governor. If his chosen candidate can't win in 2022, Larry won't have much to crow about in the run-up to 2024.
Readers,
ReplyDeleteMy opinion is Hogan was instructed to SAY these comments, not just “to run”.
Who in the Party is giving instructions?
Hmmm
Straight from Langley lol
DeleteWow this guy must be standing in front of the mirror every day these days now and admiring himself
ReplyDeleteHogan sit your ass down. The Republicans in Maryland wouldn't piss on you to put you out if you were on fire. You have no chance of winning an election even for governor again let alone the presidency.
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