Can Larry Hogan Pull Off a Blue-State Upset?

The Senate GOP nominee is tacking left on abortion while vowing to be an ‘independent voice’ — and hoping Maryland voters view him as a centrist.

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Larry Hogan, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, arrives at the polling place at Davidsonville Elementary School to cast his ballot in the state primary election in Davidsonville, Md., May 14, 2024.

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Davidsonville, Md. — Larry Hogan estimates he turned down Senate Republicans “probably 50 times, quite frankly” before deciding that this time around, he’d give it a go.

“I think it was sometime in January, they came back around again,” the former two-term governor of Maryland told National Review a few minutes after casting his Republican primary ballot last week.

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Audrey Fahlberg was a politics reporter for National Review.

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