Former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a fierce critic of Donald Trump, says he won't run for the White House in 2024 after long positioning himself as a possible alternative to the ex-president.
, said Sunday on CNN's “State of the Union” that “March is a message month” and that Republicans “need to have all alternatives” to Trump. “We don't need to be led by arrogance and revenge in the future.”
“He’s very tough,” Hogan said. “But, you know, I beat life-threatening cancer. So having Trump call me names on Twitter didn’t -- didn’t really scare me off.” Some Republicans had hoped that Hogan, emerging as the new best hope of a small group of “Never Trump Republicans,” would challenge Trump in 2020. But a year after Hogan's reelection in 2018, he said that while he appreciated “all of the encouragement” he had received to run for president, he would not.In the past two presidential elections, Hogan said he did not vote for Trump, the party nominee. Hogan said he wrote in the name of his father, former U.S. Rep. Larry Hogan Sr.
In June of that year, he was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma but continued working while receiving treatment. He has been in remission since November 2015. Describing the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as “one of the darkest days in American history," Hogan said Trump should have resigned or been removed from office.
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