WASHINGTON – Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan won’t be running for president next year, leaving one in every of Donald Trump’s sharpest critics inside the GOP out of the 2024 subject.
“I did give it severe consideration and I talked to folks in all places and I talked to my household. And it was a tricky choice,” Hogan informed CBS’ Face the Nation in an interview that aired Sunday. However I’ve determined that I will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president.”
Hogan, who served eight years because the Republican governor of a solidly blue state, had been a constant critic of the previous president amid hypothesis he would problem Trump for the 2024 nomination.
Although not as vocally essential of Trump as different Republicans, notably former Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., or Adam Kinzinger, R-Unwell., Hogan had earned the ire of the previous president for famously saying he would not help Trump in the 2020 election.
Hogan informed Face the Nation that Trump’s barbs in opposition to him – together with referring to him as ‘shutdown RINO’ (Republican in Identify Solely) – had little bearing on his choice.
“That did not actually scare me,” the previous governor stated. “You are proper. It will be a tricky race. And he is very robust. However, you recognize, I beat life-threatening most cancers. So having Trump name me names on Twitter did not – did not actually scare me off.”
Hogan additionally anxious a big GOP subject would help the former president who received the 2016 nomination by rising from a big group of rivals who had break up the anti-Trump vote.
“I did not wish to have a pile up of a bunch of individuals combating,” he informed Face the Nation. “Proper now, you’ve Trump and (Florida Gov. Ron) DeSantis on the prime of the sphere, they’re absorbing all of the oxygen, getting all the eye. After which a complete lot of the remainder of us in single digits and the extra of them you’ve, the much less likelihood you’ve for anyone rising up.”
This text initially appeared on USA TODAY: Trump critic Larry Hogan not seeking 2024 GOP presidential nomination
