Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) officially declined to run for Senate Tuesday, putting an end to a high-profile pressure campaign spearheaded by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Shocked ,nobody wants to join Mitch McConnell’s broken senate.
except possibly curtsy kyrsten. (ok, that was a cold shot, oh well).
Hogan would rather remain in a job where he is expected to do something.
May they nark off more GOP otherwises in the year to come
Hogan is entirely too sane to be a Republican Senator. Maybe Matt Gaetz can move to Maryland. Maybe the clown from IT can run.
Hogan, like Sununu, realizes that the party of trump does not have a long-term future - especially once the January 6th hearings begin.
He still has Presidential hopes too - but needs a GOP purged of trump, DeSantis, etc, if he hopes to succeed. And not campaigning for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat during the same time the January 6th hearings are going on allows Hogan to put some distance between himself and the current party leadership.
[Also, since Maryland borders DC and the Maryland National Guard was an early responder on January 6th, Hogan may have a better feeling for some of the things we’re going to learn from the committee.]
What is IT??
But the dysfunction of the chamber, paralyzed by the filibuster and hyper-partisanship, has so far turned off at least a couple of candidates who would have eased their task.
I’m having a VERY difficult time believing that McConnell hasn’t pledged to Hogan & Sununu that he would abolish the filibuster if Republicans retake the Senate. At least up until right before the next election in which case he would restore it after all the damage had been done. So maybe @greylady has it exactly right:
This is IT!
Gov. Hogan quoted as saying he calls 'em like he sees 'em. He should be asked if 1/6 insurrection and preparations (like fake electors) for insurrection were "legitimate political discourse. Either answer is a winner.
Gadzooks…McConnell, Elaine, Rick Scott and Susan Collins hitting me up to do something would not make me want to do it either.
No worries for the GOP and Congress.
Kavanaugh’s got this.
Nice story…but we need more Democratic Governors
Sununu and Hogan have to deal with the Republican party which in the near future will either be 1) the party of TFG or 2) be completely gutted from in-fighting with people of the TFG. Add to that they would need to fight the potential negatives of the January 6th committee and criminal arrests, while still sucking up to the GQP.
Swimming in a pool full of shit is not interesting but to the full hardcore corrupt GOP politician that basically wants to stock it.
Yep.
The story is only interesting because it shows more and more tiny leaks in the GQP dike.
Wonder when CoRonna is going to get run out of her job?
Because Mitch broke it.
She’s safe, like Qevin McCarthy, because no one competent wants her job.
She’ll hang on until November.
If the results are anything less than a red Roland Emmerich movie (global extinction disaster) she’s out.