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GOP Senate candidate 'personally insulted' by 'alienating' attacks on Kamala Harris' race

A former Republican Maryland governor appeared on Fox Business to complain about Donald Trump's drag on his U.S. Senate campaign.

Larry Hogan is running against one of Vice President Kamala Harris' dear friends, Angela Alsobrooks. But the polls haven't been great for Hogan, whom Trump has endorsed.

Speaking to Neil Cavuto, Hogan explained, "I just really think we've got to focus on the issues and kind of avoid all of this gender-race kind of wild attacks."

He said they should be more focused on "the issues" because there is a clear difference.

"It's not helpful to be shrinking the tent and alienating swing voters and turning people off," Hogan said. "You can't just keep playing to the base and keep expecting to win elections."

Cavuto said it's "one thing to go after Kamala Harris and whether she's Black" but that the "bigger concern" for some in the GOP is when Trump attacks a popular Republican governor like Brian Kemp (R-GA).

"Well, first of all, for attacking Kamala Harris for whether she's Black or Asian or what she is — I was personally insulted by that," Hogan explained that while he is white, he has grandchildren of color.

"What kind of signal does that send to them?" Hogan questioned.

He also agreed that attacking his friend Kemp over a "perceived slight from years ago" was a huge mistake.

"Questioning people's race or making fun of cat ladies is not how we win elections," he said.

Cavuto asked about a recent poll showing Hogan eight points down against Alsobrooks, but Hogan cast doubt on the poll.

"It was done also prior to the switch out," Hogan said, referring to President Joe Biden stepping out of the 2024 race and Harris taking over.

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'Party loyalty demands too much': GOP Senate hopeful snubs Trump in new campaign ad

Sometimes party loyalty demands too much.

That's the word from Maryland Republican Senate hopeful Larry Hogan, who cited former President John F. Kennedy in his campaign ad, which was released Monday and notably snubbed former President Donald Trump.

Trump apparently isn't holding a grudge against the former Maryland governor, despite needling MAGA when Hogan notably broke from GOP by refusing to criticize Trump's trial as rigged and instead pleading for "all Americans to respect the verdict."

"Former President Trump tells me he’s ENDORSING @GovLarryHogan for Senate, despite Hogan’s comments that people should 'respect the verdict' in the NY hush money trial," Fox News congressional correspondent Aisha Hasnie wrote on X last week.

Even then, Hogan didn't appear ready to sing "Kumbaya" with Trump just yet.

“Governor Hogan has been clear he is not supporting Donald Trump just as he didn’t in 2016 and 2020,” his campaign later responded.

And on Monday, Hogan released a new ad titled, "Independent Leadership" — with mention of the GOP's presidential candidate noticeably absent.

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"Sometimes one person can make a difference," Hogan said, opening the ad. "My dad, Congressman Larry Hogan Senior, was the first Republican to call for President Nixon's impeachment. John McCain gave the big thumbs down, saving Obamacare. During Covid I put people over politics to keep Marylanders safe."

Hogan added that strong independent leaders can make a difference. That's exactly what Washington needs today," he said.

Hogan then turned to words reportedly uttered by JFK to wrap his message.

"I'm Larry Hogan. I approved this message. Because as President Kennedy said, 'Sometimes party loyalty demands too much."

Hogan's anti-Trump stance has conflicted with GOP leadership and indeed earned their ire.

The 45th president's daughter-in-law and co-chair of the RNC Lara Trump expressed displeasure when in a CNN appearance last week.

"He doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican Party at this point and, quite frankly, anybody in America," she said.

“I think it’s ridiculous and I think anybody who’s not speaking up in the face of really something that should never again have seen the light of day at trial, that would never have been brought against any other person aside from Donald Trump, doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone,” she said.Watch the clip below or at the link here.

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Larry Hogan earns surprising Trump endorsement despite past GOP row

Donald Trump isn't holding a grudge against former Gov. Larry Hogan despite needling MAGA when he notably broke from GOP orthodoxy that castigated Trump's rigged trial to plea for "all Americans to respect the verdict."

"Former President Trump tells me he’s ENDORSING @GovLarryHogan for Senate, despite Hogan’s comments that people should 'respect the verdict' in the NY hush money trial," Fox News Congressional correspondent Aisha Hasnie wrote on X.

That prompted a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee statement that read: "Donald Trump wants Republican Larry Hogan in the Senate."

But Hogan doesn't appear ready to sing "Kumbaya" with Trump just yet.

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“Governor Hogan has been clear he is not supporting Donald Trump just as he didn’t in 2016 and 2020,” according to a campaign response.

Hogan drew scorn from the GOP after applauding a New York City jury finding former President Donald Trump guilty, making him a convicted felon while also being the presumptive Republican nominee.

"You just ended your campaign,” announced Chis LaCivita, a veteran Republican operative who serves as a senior campaign adviser to Trump and a Republican National Committee official slamming Hogan's run for the Senate.

And the 45th president's daughter-in-law and co-chair of the RNC Lara Trump was also displeased when she appeared on CNN. "He doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican Party at this point and, quite frankly, anybody in America.

Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of fudging business records in order to corrupt the outcome of the 2016 election when he paid six-figure hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, who alleged they had a sexual affair.

The 45th president has repeatedly denied the accusations and has vowed to appeal after he's sentenced July 11.

In the fallout of the historic trial's end, Raw Story pressed the only Republican in the Maryland delegation about the intra-party feud.

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) yelled when Raw Story mentioned the Trump team going after Hogan: "Trump did not go after Hogan!"

Raw Story explained again, "It was Lara Trump!"

"That's bulls---!" Harris told Raw Story.

Harris alleged the story was "fake news."

Ultimately, he proclaimed, the Republican Party and Lara Trump don't speak for Donald Trump.

Republican yells at Raw Story when asked about clash between ex-Gov. Larry Hogan and Trump

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hogan has drawn ire from former President Donald Trump's campaign after he said Americans should respect the guilty verdict against the former president.

But one lawmaker is calling any hints of a feud between Hogan and Trump fake news, despite the fact that Trump's allies have been openly attacking Hogan for days.

Among the critics have been the former president's own daughter-in-law.

"He doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican Party at this point and, quite frankly, anybody in America," Lara Trump said on CNN.

Yet, when Raw Story pressed the only Republican in the Maryland delegation about the intra-party feud, he delivered a strong response.

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) yelled when Raw Story mentioned the Trump team going after Hogan: "Trump did not go after Hogan!"

Raw Story explained again, "It was Lara Trump!"

"That's bulls--t!" Harris told Raw Story.

Harris alleged the story was "fake news." Ultimately, he proclaimed, the Republican Party and Lara Trump don't speak for Donald Trump.

However, it wasn't just Lara Trump who bashed Hogan, as Trump adviser Chris LaCivita called Hogan's comments campaign ending.

The conservative Washington Times has also revealed how "miffed" Senate Republicans were by Hogan's comments.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who is under consideration for Trump's vice presidential running mate, called Hogan's comments a "huge mistake" because GOP voters believe the charges against Trump are political.

“Larry’s running in a blue state. He obviously is going to run a different campaign than I would run or other folks run,” Vance told the Times. “But look, when he says things that alienate the majority of Republicans and the gross majority of Republicans, I think it’s totally reasonable to criticize him. I still hope he wins.”

Vance also said it was politically foolish.

“I don’t know what person in the state of Maryland is open to voting for Larry Hogan but is really going to be persuaded because he endorsed what I think is frankly a sham prosecution,” he said. “I don’t think anybody. I think a lot of Republicans are going to be turned off by that.”

Montana Republican Steve Daines implied Hogan was only taking the position for political reasons to get elected.

“President Trump has his race to run,” Daines told the Times. “Larry Hogan has his race to run.”

Maryland colleague Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) told Raw Story that he remembered telling Hogan he would support him in a presidential run against Trump.

"But look, Trump has turned the party of President Lincoln into a cult of authoritarian personality," Raskin explained. "And Hogan should have nothing to do with them, but if he were to be elected as a Republican, which is how he's running of course, then he'd be another brick in the wall of GOP support for the MAGA leadership."

Raskin told Raw Story that the Republican Party now demands "absolute conformity and obedience to the cult of Trump. And that's why they had to smack him down after making the very simple and uncontroversial point that people should respect the law. And Hogan has gone quiet since then."

"If he really wants to take on Trump, he should be saying, 'There's no reason he should be leading the Republican Party. And that the Republican Party should be working to remove a convicted felon as their perspective nominee,'" Raskin proposed.

Rep. Glenn Ivey, another Maryland Democrat, said that Hogan is trying to use this kind of strategy to pivot to the center after winning a Republican primary.

"The problem he's got, though, is he really can't do it at this point," Ivey told Raw Story.

"He's chosen to be on that team," he added of Hogan and the GOP. "That team is dominated by Donald Trump. And all the chaos that goes with that — he's stuck with it.

Hogan will face Democrat Angela Alsobrooks in November.

Trump just created an 'immense vulnerability' that will benefit Biden: ex-GOP strategist

Donald Trump and his allies accidentally created a monster that could mean a loss in the presidential election, according to a former Republican campaign aide.

Matthew Dowd, who previously worked for George W. Bush's campaigns, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss Trump's bid to unseat President Joe Biden. The host began by discussing Trump's guilty verdicts and their impact on the race.

The host then drew attention to former Republican Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, and his response to the verdicts. He suggested the country should respect law and order, and therefore the jury's decision in the case in which Trump was convicted of 34 felonies for business records violations.

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Specifically, the host noted that Hogan, who is now running for Senate as a Republican, earned "immediate condemnation from many of his GOP colleagues, including a senior Trump advisor, who said Hogan just ended his campaign for the Senate."

"Hogan is locked in a close race in a heavily Democratic state. Are Republicans more concerned with loyalty to Trump, than even winning back the Senate?" the host asked.

Dowd replied that "we saw that in 2022 when they nominated candidates that most everybody knew they couldn't win and ended up all losing in these crazy candidates that they nominated."

"They seem to be wanting to go down a path of following Trump no matter what he does, and I find it unbelievable, that the Republicans who support Donald Trump are criticizing somebody, another Republican, for saying we should stand by law and order," he said. "I think this whole thing creates an immense vulnerability for Donald Trump and the Republicans because what they have done in two major ways is try to undermine two of the most fundamental principles of our democracy."

He continued:

"One obviously we know is trial by jury and the other is the votes that happened in November of 2020. And what they are saying is, we don't care what average citizens, practicing their civic duty whether it is serving on a jury or voting in a voting booth, we don't care what they want. We don't care what they choose. We don't care what they decide. The only thing that matters is what is good for Donald Trump in this, even if it is rejecting every voter across the country and any jurors."

"So to me, it has created a tremendous vulnerability that I think the Biden campaign will take advantage of," he added. "It's that that they don't care about what citizens want."

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'Go eat': MAGA piles on GOP Senate candidate after he urges 'respect' for Trump verdict

Former President Donald Trump's conviction in the felony hush payment case in Manhattan predictably led to a firestorm of condemnation and recriminations against the legal system by Republican officeholders across the country — but in some cases, it also led to a civil war against the few Republicans who had any words of caution.

That was laid bare vividly on Thursday for former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, now the Republican nominee for Senate in that state.

"Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process," Hogan posted to X that afternoon. "At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders — regardless of party — must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship. We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law."

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This comment was quickly swatted down by Mike Davis, a pro-Trump legal activist and former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who replied by writing, "F--- you, Larry. Go eat" — a clear broadside at the former governor's weight.

Hogan has been open about his struggle with his weight. He says it began in the mid-2010s while he was being treated for lymphoma, which included steroid therapy that affected his appetite, and was exacerbated by the stress of holding public office. He fought particularly hard to lose some of the weight in 2020, fearful of his elevated risk of complications from COVID.

Davis has frequently stepped into controversy. Earlier this year, he filed an ethics complaint against U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton for appearing on TV to criticize Trump's rhetoric during the trial. He appeared himself on CNN to accuse Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the case, of bias, but was smacked down by anchor Pamela Brown.

But Davis is far from alone among prominent Trump allies in attacking Hogan, simply for urging calm.

Senior Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita replied, "You just ended your campaign," while far-right activist and Trump ally Laura Loomer wrote, "Go to hell. Your campaign for Senate is OFFICIALLY OVER!"