Hogan Says He Decided to Run When GOP Killed the Border Bill

Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday that he decided to run for his state's Senate seat this year when Senate Republicans recently killed the bipartisan border measure after former President Donald Trump told them to block it.

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... "It's why I decided to run for Senate," Hogan, a moderate Republican and Trump critic, said in an interview with MSNBC Live's Luke Russert at the network's inaugural live event in downtown Washington.

"Actually, I had never given any consideration to this race," Hogan said. "I'd said 100 times I didn't aspire to become a senator. I didn't need a job. I wasn't looking for another title, but three weeks ago on a Wednesday night, when I saw a real solution to secure the border and provide funding for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan -- something that most of the Republican senators had said was, all those things were important, and they were told to vote against what they believed in -- it made me frustrated and angry enough to say, I think I'm gonna go down there and try to do something about this."

Republicans blocked the border bill, whose chief GOP negotiator was Sen. James Lankford, of Oklahoma, in early February.

Asked if he's surprised that Senate Republicans haven't been supportive of Ukraine, Hogan said that he doesn't understand this "new strain of isolationism in the Republican Party." He warned that if the U.S. doesn't help Ukraine now, it's going to put Americans in a much worse situation, adding that he also doesn't understand the "Putin sympathizers" in the GOP. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-04 07:08 PM | Reply

@#1

So it seems he is not a member of the Cult of Trump.

That brings two questions to the fore: will the Cult of Trump support him to gain the seat and then subject him to immersive ice-baths until he spouts their nonsense? Or will they opposed him?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-04 07:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Darn I was hoping for some Hulkamania!

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-04 07:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

To answer your question Lamp ... he won't receive mainstream support from Republicans. We've forced Romney into retirement, we don't need another one.

#4 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-03-04 08:07 PM | Reply

And I say that as trusting Susan Collins (who is a fantastic Republican) any day of the week over the likes of Hogan and Romney. I might not agree with everything she stands for, but at least I know where she stands.

#5 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-03-04 08:09 PM | Reply

@#4 ... To answer your question Lamp ... he won't receive mainstream support from Republicans. ...

Democracy does not receive mainstream support from Republicans.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-04 08:18 PM | Reply

Republicans can't survive in a democracy.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-04 08:24 PM | Reply

Well I guess it's a good thing we're a Republic ...

#8 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-03-04 08:24 PM | Reply

@#8 ... Well I guess it's a good thing we're a Republic ... ...

Nice attempt (albeit, quite lame) at a dodge. Likely indicative that that current alias has nothing better to counter what it responded to.

We're democratic Republic.

And if you doubt that for a second, please attend New England Town Meetings.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-04 08:39 PM | Reply

We've forced Romney into retirement, we don't need another one.

#4 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Yeah! You only want scumbag pieces of ---- to hold office for your party!

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-04 11:27 PM | Reply

JPW ... 2012 you guys trounced a guy who had his dog ride atop his minivan and bitched about binders. Needless to say Republicans lost that go around (you know putting up the civil candidate). Anyways, 2016 we hired an ------- and guess what?!? He won. Personally I'm glad now that he's getting rehired for the job of nominee again. And solely for the purposes of watching people like you become unhinged and burn cities down like only kooky leftists can. But this time, I'd imagine the military won't be as kind to you guys as you burn hard working people's businesses down.

#11 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-03-04 11:34 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

@#11 ... Anyways, 2016 we hired an ------- and guess what?!? He won ...

Hired?

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-05 12:00 AM | Reply

2012 you guys trounced a guy who had his dog ride atop his minivan and bitched about binders. Needless to say Republicans lost that go around (you know putting up the civil candidate). Anyways, 2016 we hired an ------- and guess what?!? He won.

Well yeah. All the racist, miserable, bitter losers known as MAGA weren't gonna stand by and let a black guy do better than them!

And solely for the purposes of watching people like you become...blah blah blah

Fantasizing about an illegal act all in the name of loving other people being miserable like it.

Was this supposed to rebut the notion that you are a scumbag piece of ----? If your life is that pathetically bad, just go find a bus to live in in the Alaskan wilderness and f&^% off.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-05 12:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Bitched about binders? No.

Binders fulla bitches.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-05 02:58 AM | Reply

Hogan better search his past for weaknesses. Because if he doesn't find them, Trump & company will.

And . . . (so important) can he afford round-the-clock security for his family?

#15 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-03-05 08:31 AM | Reply

We're democratic Republic.

And if you doubt that for a second, please attend New England Town Meetings.

Nah, I'll stick to the constitution, where "democracy" isnt mentioned once.

#16 | Posted by boaz at 2024-03-05 09:22 AM | Reply

lol cheers yesterday's ruling ... then claims to be sticking to the constitution.

You can't make this ---- up. Y'all or so blatantly stupid even satire is looking at you like "are you serious?"

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-05 10:10 AM | Reply

Also, how childishly simple do you have to be to require a literal mention of a word?

We obviously have democratic institutions in our form of government, but you refuse to use the word because a document you swore to defend but instead you wipe your ignorant ass with doesn't specifically use the word ...

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-05 10:12 AM | Reply

Nah, I'll stick to the constitution, where "democracy" isnt mentioned once.

#16 | POSTED BY BOAZ

So why do you bother to vote if everything is decided by the constitution and the courts that interpret it?

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-05 10:42 AM | Reply

LOL ~~ Boaz is going to stick to the Constitution that Trump said he's going to tear up after he's elected.

#20 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-03-05 11:45 AM | Reply

Boaz, don't worry about JPW ... As you can tell he's still very bitter that even the Liberal Justices destroyed his hopes of getting Trump knocked off the Ballot. It's alright I'm sure we'll see him on TV January 2025 burning down some poor hard working immigrant's business shouting ThIs Is FoR DeMoCrAcY!!!

#21 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-03-05 11:50 AM | Reply

Here's something Boaz can memorize:

I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Autocracy for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, under Christian Nationalism, without promise of liberty or justice for all.

#22 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-03-05 11:59 AM | Reply

Apparently this Boazo character thinks the constitution magically elects his representatives and that We The People have nothing to do with it.

Apparently.

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-05 12:03 PM | Reply

Wes Moore just won Maryland by 32 percentage points. "Moderate" Republicans like Hogan can STFU with their crocodile tears but he's free to waste as much Republican money as possible.

#24 | Posted by JOE at 2024-03-05 12:30 PM | Reply

--------- is so proud of the fact that the Republican Party ran out one of the greatest candidates, and one of the best politicians I have known in the last 30 years.

I know Romney very well, and I would vote for him right now over every other candidate of the last 15-20 years. He was always the smartest man in the tin no matter what room he was in. He had actual decorum and respect for the office he held and the one he sought.

I've known every president this country has had since Nixon, and many of the candidates. That you strength cheer Romney's rejection and celebrate the ascendency of anyone else is just laughably ignorant.

#25 | Posted by ABH at 2024-03-05 01:12 PM | Reply

#25. ABH. You know Romney in a personal level?

#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-03-05 01:19 PM | Reply

Yes. I worked quite closely with him in the run up to the election.

#27 | Posted by ABH at 2024-03-05 01:29 PM | Reply

ABH, I didn't have a problem with Romney (voted for him in the 08 primary and for President in 2012) until he penned his op-ed demolishing Trump and then after Trump won had the nerve to ask the guy for a job. That to me was a rather classless move so spare me the lecture on how great Mittens is.

At least Paul Ryan stood by his guns regarding Trump and left for the private sector, that's something and someone I can respect.

#28 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-03-05 02:27 PM | Reply

He wasn't wrong. And he never "asked" for a job. A reporter asked if he would accept a position and he said he would. He would have been sorely needed. I have worked with Trump off and on over the years. I don't actually dislike him as a person. People would be surprised to learn he is very different in person than in TV. HOWEVER ... . I do disagree with much of his policy positions, and I come from the Reagan era of republicanism. Where the President had decorum, manners, and complete respect the for both the office and the PROCESS of politics.

#29 | Posted by ABH at 2024-03-05 03:05 PM | Reply

That to me was a rather classless move

A Trump supporter pretending to care about class. Thanks for the laugh.

#30 | Posted by JOE at 2024-03-05 03:51 PM | Reply

ABH, I mean no disrespect but this Vanity Fair article says otherwise.

www.vanityfair.com

It was this incident, no matter how decent of a person Mitt Romney is ... he did imo behave in the manner of Et tu Brute. But that's just me.

#31 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-03-05 04:43 PM | Reply

" Yes. I worked quite closely with him in the run up to the election.

#27 | POSTED BY ABH AT 2024-03-05 01:29 PM | FLAG: "

That's pretty dang cool. I've never been a fan of his as a politician but he's always seemed like a kind and decent person.

#32 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-03-05 04:55 PM | Reply

"Yes. I worked quite closely with him in the run up to the election."

Oooh!

Were you the stuffed suit goon who said

"You will treat the candidate with respect!"

When one of Romney's ridiculous claims was challenged in a perfectly reasonable and rational way by a muld-mannered reporter?

Romney showed his true, nasty colors in that exchange, I'm sure you remember it well.

#33 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-05 05:29 PM | Reply

I actually don't remember that exchange at all and it certainly wasn't me. I didn't care if anyone disrespected him. That wasn't my job.

But he was a great man and one of the few I've met that I was actually happy to cast a vote for.

#34 | Posted by ABH at 2024-03-05 07:38 PM | Reply

Nobody who opportunistically decided he opppses a woman's right to abortion because his party shifted far right and set out to destroy American values is a great man.

But you do you.

I have come to realize some people simply won't ever understand how or why abortion is the cornerstone of gender equality and a free society. This ain't France.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-05 09:22 PM | Reply

Just curious ABH, did you know McCain? From what I've heard, he was just plain mean to those around him.

#36 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2024-03-05 11:03 PM | Reply

The only way Larry Hogan is going to be able to "do something" about Trump is with a gun.

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-05 11:05 PM | Reply

I only met McCain very briefly.

I've heard the same stories but I don't know anything from personal experience.

#38 | Posted by ABH at 2024-03-06 06:09 AM | Reply

""Actually, I had never given any consideration to this race," Hogan said. "I'd said 100 times I didn't aspire to become a senator. I didn't need a job. I wasn't looking for another title, but three weeks ago....blah blah blah

A spur of the moment decision to become a senator? More left whang last minute knee jerk f~x up.

#39 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2024-03-06 08:21 AM | Reply

To answer your question Lamp ... he won't receive mainstream support from Republicans. We've forced Romney into retirement, we don't need another one.

#4 | Posted by Bluewaffles

In case anyone forgot you're in a cult, thanks for the reminder.

#40 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-06 01:54 PM | Reply

Personally... I think he handled the matters under his control during COVID-19 and 1/6 exceptionally well. He bucked the party line to do so.

He has my ear this time around. He seems sane and I am interested in what he has to say.

#41 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-03-06 06:53 PM | Reply

What I remember about Hogan is that he wanted to send Maryland's national guard to DC on January 6, but was prevented from doing so for many hours:

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sunday he still doesn't know why he couldn't get rapid approval to send his state's National Guard to the Capitol amid Wednesday's insurrection.

"All I know is that we were trying to get answers and we weren't getting answers. It could have been just the fog of what's going on," Hogan, a Republican, told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."

www.politico.com

He'd be a lot better Senator than anyone Trump will support, which is why Republicans in Maryland probably won't support him.

#42 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-03-06 07:17 PM | Reply

is why Republicans in Maryland probably won't support him.

#42 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

How familiar are you to Republicans in MD?
Or Larry Hogsn's general popularity in the Old Bay state?

#43 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-03-06 09:29 PM | Reply

#43 I know he is very popular in Maryland:

Hogan to leave office with high approval ratings intact, Gonzales Poll finds

The telephone poll of about 800 registered voters statewide was taken last week found statewide. The pollsters found 77% of Maryland voters approve of the job Hogan has done as Maryland's governor.

Despite being in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, Hogan - a moderate republican - has remained popular. With 81% approval among democrats.

That's 13 points higher than among republicans.

www.cbsnews.com

#44 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-03-06 09:38 PM | Reply

I'm not very familiar with Maryland Republicans. I know a little more about Hogan and saw this segment on him recently:

www.msnbc.com

#45 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-03-06 09:41 PM | Reply

Maryland has a very unique electorate. The main industry in Suburban DC (which is most of the population) is the Federal Government. This really distorts reality. They tend to have employment security, retirement plans and are well insulated from economic ups and downs. The recessions barely make a blip in DC area housing prices. Everything is political. The local news is National news There is the political elite with scores of appointees and career civil service who register with the party that employs them, and switch parties when that changes. Then there are zillions of underpaid service industry worker bees who keep them all fed, watered, clothed and cleaned. It is a really surreal place to live.

#46 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2024-03-07 08:48 PM | Reply