Larry Hogan announces he will not run for president
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said on Sunday that he will not seek the presidential nomination for the Republican Party in 2024, arguing that his bid would overcrowd the already-crowded primary and allow former President Donald Trump an opportunity to win the GOP candidacy. “We must move on from Donald Trump.
There are several competent Republican leaders who have the potential to step up and lead,” he said in a Twitter statement. “But the stakes are too high for me to risk being part of another multi-car pileup that could potentially help Trump recapture the nomination.” Hogan said he had intentions of running for president after leaving office in January.
Having served two terms as governor since 2015, Hogan was a moderate Republican while in office. He allowed several LGBTQ rights bills to become law (albeit, without his signature.) Before his election in 2014, Hogan said that he would not seek to repeal Maryland’s same-sex marriage law that voters upheld two years earlier.
The Maryland politician, a fervent Trump critic, has never agreed with the influence that the former president held on the GOP.
