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RandySF

(81,137 posts) Thu Oct 31, 2024, 05:51 AM Oct 2024

MD-SEN: GOP Senate candidate Hogan touts Trump endorsement in private fundraiser

CNN — Maryland GOP Senate candidate Larry Hogan touted an endorsement from Donald Trump in a private donor call and suggested it helps him with the former president’s “hard core” supporters, after repeatedly stating that he did not want Trump’s endorsement.

On the call Wednesday, a local GOP donor asked Hogan about the public perception that Hogan and Trump “hate each other.” The former Maryland governor clarified that he did actually receive Trump’s endorsement, according to a video of the call exclusively obtained by CNN.

“Donald Trump actually endorsed me,” Hogan says, interrupting the donor and repeating: “Donald Trump actually endorsed me.”

Hogan, who was a popular GOP governor during Trump’s first term in the White House, has often clashed with the former president and once even considered a primary challenge against him. And the relationship between the two men has become a major question during this year’s Senate run.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/30/politics/larry-hogan-tout-trump-endorsement/index.html

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'"Donald Trump actually endorsed me," Hogan says.' elleng Oct 2024 #1

elleng

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1. '"Donald Trump actually endorsed me," Hogan says.'

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Thu Oct 31, 2024, 05:54 AM

Oct 2024

in secret???

'As he reiterated yesterday on CNN, he won’t be supporting Former President Trump,” the statement said. . .

“There is a small percent, it’s about 4 percent of the people, who are hard core Trump folks who may be mad at people because I didn’t support Trump,” he said, noting that their alternative in the Maryland Senate race is a “far left Democrat who’s against everything they believe in.”

And for those Trump supporters, Hogan said: “Trump did come out and endorse me, so for those hard-core folks, you just tell them that.”'

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