Hogan

[Anonymous]

Former MD Governor. What do you think he'll do next? Try running for US President (if there are any more "elections")? Try again for US Senate? or run in House?

[Anonymous]

Serve as a cabinet member if a "Republican" lets him

[Anonymous]

2x Hogan as Gov voter here. He’s too busy being butthurt sharing articles about Moore’s spending to speak up about anything going on. If he had continued to take a stand against Trump as a legacy Repub he might have had a chance to figure out a next step. Now, his silence is complicit.

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I think most Marylanders saw through his "aw shucks" moderate Republican branding and remember him for vetoing expanded abortion access, needlessly delaying the purple line and costing Maryland taxpayers millions, cancelling the red line in Baltimore, tossing red meat to his base by lowering tolls on the Bay Bridge, and his spineless, mealy-mouthed write-in for Ronald Reagan in 2020.

Whatever goodwill he accumulated amongst centrists and moderate Democrats has been completely squandered. I think he'd have a shot at something like HHS in a normal Republican administration, but Hogan has somehow managed to thread the needle on alienating both MAGA Republicans and centrists/independents/moderate Dems.

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Anonymous wrote:I think most Marylanders saw through his "aw shucks" moderate Republican branding and remember him for vetoing expanded abortion access, needlessly delaying the purple line and costing Maryland taxpayers millions, cancelling the red line in Baltimore, tossing red meat to his base by lowering tolls on the Bay Bridge, and his spineless, mealy-mouthed write-in for Ronald Reagan in 2020.

Whatever goodwill he accumulated amongst centrists and moderate Democrats has been completely squandered. I think he'd have a shot at something like HHS in a normal Republican administration, but Hogan has somehow managed to thread the needle on alienating both MAGA Republicans and centrists/independents/moderate Dems.

I would vote again for Hogan or a Hogan-like candidate for Governor. Democrat here.

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I’m a conservative never-Trumper who really likes Hogan. As much as I would like for him to hold office, I voted against him as a Republican candidate because I didn’t want to help MAGA control the Senate. I hope if he runs again, he does it as an Independent so that I can support him without supporting the Republican (MAGA) party.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a conservative never-Trumper who really likes Hogan. As much as I would like for him to hold office, I voted against him as a Republican candidate because I didn’t want to help MAGA control the Senate. I hope if he runs again, he does it as an Independent so that I can support him without supporting the Republican (MAGA) party.

The fact that he had a chance in MD says how totally out of touch with reality the other side was.
And, unfortunately, continues to be. No clue that the only way to have won was with the middle, which they persistently alienated.

They wanted them to hold their proboscis and vote their way, and while some did, enough held it to vote the other -- something they just couldn't fathom.
Now, the only way to bring it back from the brink is to just abandon anything other than the exigency of maintaining a realistic civil check, with the only prospect of that being to create a new majority that offers authorship of the agenda to the few who even would consider such a move.

No lessons learned from 2016. Or 2000. Or 1988. Or 1876. Or 1828. Or...

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Anonymous wrote:I think most Marylanders saw through his "aw shucks" moderate Republican branding and remember him for vetoing expanded abortion access, needlessly delaying the purple line and costing Maryland taxpayers millions, cancelling the red line in Baltimore, tossing red meat to his base by lowering tolls on the Bay Bridge, and his spineless, mealy-mouthed write-in for Ronald Reagan in 2020.

Whatever goodwill he accumulated amongst centrists and moderate Democrats has been completely squandered. I think he'd have a shot at something like HHS in a normal Republican administration, but Hogan has somehow managed to thread the needle on alienating both MAGA Republicans and centrists/independents/moderate Dems.

Your last bit exactly what I was feeling before Nov elections. couldn't believe the number of supporters he had in the last election though. Didn't think anyone at that point would vote for him.

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His dreams of being president are basically over. JD Vance will be the nominee in 2028. He could run in 2032 but at that point he'll be 76, and he'll have been out of elective politics for too long. And really, he has no place in the modern Republican party -- he is extreme in his views, but not extreme with inflammatory rhetoric in the way that MAGAts demand.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think most Marylanders saw through his "aw shucks" moderate Republican branding and remember him for vetoing expanded abortion access, needlessly delaying the purple line and costing Maryland taxpayers millions, cancelling the red line in Baltimore, tossing red meat to his base by lowering tolls on the Bay Bridge, and his spineless, mealy-mouthed write-in for Ronald Reagan in 2020.

Whatever goodwill he accumulated amongst centrists and moderate Democrats has been completely squandered. I think he'd have a shot at something like HHS in a normal Republican administration, but Hogan has somehow managed to thread the needle on alienating both MAGA Republicans and centrists/independents/moderate Dems.

I would vote again for Hogan or a Hogan-like candidate for Governor. Democrat here.

Oh please you are not a dem hogan sucked

[Anonymous]

Republicans are coming fir md next
Hogan is running for governor gi$ help us if he wins

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His dreams of being president are basically over. JD Vance will be the nominee in 2028. He could run in 2032 but at that point he'll be 76, and he'll have been out of elective politics for too long. And really, he has no place in the modern Republican party -- he is extreme in his views, but not extreme with inflammatory rhetoric in the way that MAGAts demand.

I think it is too early to proclaim Vance the sucessor. He could go out like Pense.

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I don't think he has any future in the Republican party. I don't see him getting appointed in the current or any future administration. He certainly has no chance of getting elected as a Republican.

I think he would get my vote (again) if he ran as a Democrat with (mostly) the same positions and priorities that he won with in the past. I think they need him more than he needs them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His dreams of being president are basically over. JD Vance will be the nominee in 2028. He could run in 2032 but at that point he'll be 76, and he'll have been out of elective politics for too long. And really, he has no place in the modern Republican party -- he is extreme in his views, but not extreme with inflammatory rhetoric in the way that MAGAts demand.

I think it is too early to proclaim Vance the sucessor. He could go out like Pense.

musk and vance until midterm, then someone from his family

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think he has any future in the Republican party. I don't see him getting appointed in the current or any future administration. He certainly has no chance of getting elected as a Republican.

I think he would get my vote (again) if he ran as a Democrat with (mostly) the same positions and priorities that he won with in the past. I think they need him more than he needs them.

He would never run Democrat. An Indepenedent maybe. He is trying to stay relevant but days in politics are numbered