Democrats will be gleeful if Trump announces his 2024 candidacy before the November general election. Sadly for Republicans - Trump's narcissistic ego and his need to have the GOPers worship him as a form of control -- make it likely that he will announce before the November election. Hogan says Trump announcement before November would cost GOP seats https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday...ncement-before-november-would-cost-gop-seats/ Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said on Sunday that the GOP will lose seats in this year’s midterm elections if former President Trump announces another presidential run before November. During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Hogan told moderator Johnathan Karl that Trump had already cost the GOP the White House, the Senate and the House, and could do further damage by entering the 2024 race before this year’s midterms. “Well, we had discussions about that at the Republican Governors Association last week, and I think most people are very concerned about the damage it does to the party if he announces now,” Hogan told Karl. “And, you know, it may help in very red states or very red districts. But in competitive places and purple battlefields, it’s going to cost us seats if he were to do that.” Hogan said it was “50/50” whether Trump decides to run, adding: “his ego probably can’t take another loss — after all he lost to Joe Biden, which is hard to do — but he likes to be the center of attention.” Hogan, a frequent critic of Trump, has cast himself as a leader of the anti-Trump faction of the Republican Party. He told Karl that the midterms were the latest chapter in a long fight to seize control of the party back from Trump. Hogan’s comments come days after Trump-backed Dan Cox (R) defeated Hogan-backed Kelly Schulz (R) in Maryland’s GOP gubernatorial primary, setting up Cox to challenge Democratic candidate Wes Moore (D) in November’s election. Karl asked Hogan whether the loss in his home-state primary made him more or less likely to run for president. “It makes me more determined than ever to continue the battle to win — you know, to win over the Republican Party and take us back to a bigger tent, more Reaganesque party,” Hogan said. “We got a work cut out for us but I’m certainly not giving up.”
Never Trumper, RINO, uniparty, selection not election and selling out the USA are not serving the interests of American voters. Reagan did not look to get paid off, as most of our political class has.
Trump's MAGA clown candidate for Maryland state attorney general not only denies the 2020 election results but the 9/11 attacks in 2001. This is a typical example of Trumper clowns. Hogan slams ‘disgusting lies’ about 9/11 by Maryland GOP attorney general nominee https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...-11-by-maryland-gop-attorney-general-nominee/ Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) condemned his party’s pick for state attorney general on Sunday, following a CNN report revealing the nominee spread conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on a radio show he co-hosted roughly 15 years ago. Michael Peroutka, who won the Republican primary earlier this month, said it was “very, very true” that demolition charges were present in the World Trade Center before the attacks, during an October 2006 episode of “The American View.” He also questioned if an “elite bureaucrat” may have charges in every building in the city. “We know who was responsible for 9/11,” Hogan tweeted Sunday. “Blaming our country for Al-Qaeda’s atrocities is an insult to the memory of the thousands of innocent Americans and brave first responders who died that day. These disgusting lies don’t belong in our party.” Hogan, who is in his second and final term as Republican governor of a traditionally blue state, has repeatedly criticized members of his own party, including former President Trump. After Trump-backed candidate Dan Cox won Maryland’s GOP gubernatorial primary, Hogan said he wouldn’t support his party’s nominee in the general election. Hogan previously called Cox a “QAnon conspiracy theorist.” Peroutka, who is endorsed by Cox, suggested during the 2006 radio episode the Twin Towers fell as a result of controlled explosives, CNN reported. “I’ve been doing some reading and doing some studying, and I believe that to be very, very true,” Peroutka said, according to the outlet. “And I said that if the buildings in New York City, the World Trade Center buildings, came down by demolition charges – that is to say – if there was this evidence that there was that something was preset there, then the implications of that are massive,” he continued. The Hill has reached out to the Peroutka campaign for comment. CNN reported that Peroutka on the show also suggested that Building Seven, which was part of the World Trade Center complex and located close by to the Twin Towers, fell as a result of a controlled demolition and claimed the building fell faster than the speed of gravity. “That begs the question that if there are preset charges in Building Seven, what’s to stop there for being preset charges in Buildings 1, 2 8, 9, and 27?” Peroutka said. “Are there charges in every building in New York City? Is everyone ready to be brought down whenever some elite bureaucrat decides that he’s gonna pull it?” Peroutka added.
If Hogan were actually the Republican nominee he would win in an absolute landslide, but the parties don’t even try to appeal to the center. The best thing they can do to guarantee victory is elect a so-called RINO. Electing a so-called DINO like a Manchin/Sinema would help the Democrats as well.
Trump could cause a 'huge disaster' for the GOP — according to Mike Huckabee On Monday, Fox News reported that former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) is publicly urging former President Donald Trump not to announce another run for president while the 2022 midterm contests are still going on, warning that it would derail Republican messaging. "Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Monday that former President Trump should 'absolutely' not announce his 2024 presidential bid until after the midterms," reported Joshua Nelson. "'I think it would be a huge disaster and mistake if he were to announce this before the midterms. Because right now the focus needs to be solely and completely on getting Democrats out of control of the House and Senate and setting up for a much better situation going into 2024,' Huckabee told 'The Brian Kilmeade Show.'" Huckabee's own daughter, former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is currently running for his old governorship in Arkansas.