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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-hogan-2024-story.html

Interesting choice.

[quote]“I’m not going to say I won’t run in the future,” Hogan said of a presidential run in an interview. ”A lot of people are talking to me about 2024 being a possibility. We won one of the biggest victories in very tough state in a very tough year. People are keeping an eye on what we’re doing here. Are we going to be a bigger tent party or a smaller tent party? That could involve a future run but maybe it won’t.”

Instead of launching a 2020 campaign, Hogan said, he will start a national advocacy organization called “An America United.”

He said the group would be modeled off his Change Maryland organization, which railed on social media against high taxes and helped launch his successful run for governor.

“An America United” would focus on ending partisan division, Hogan said. He said he also saw it as carrying a bipartisan, centrist message that could help open up the GOP to more diverse supporters.[/quote]

I'd say it's a smart decision for Hogan but I wouldn't be too optimistic about his political future. I would agree that Maryland is a centrist to center-left state, which explains how we're at where we're at right now (Moderate Republican governor, Democratic legislature). Some think his popularity would give him a fair shot at the Senate, but I think he reads Maryland voters correctly that we are disinclined to enable the present day GOP to maintain control at the federal level. A 2024 Presidential bid makes sense, as he'd present a moderate Republican option following either a Democratic presidential term or a somehow held-onto but very disastrous second Trump term. I still think that it's rather optimistic that GOP primary voters would turn back to the center and nominate someone like Hogan.[/quote]

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