Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says Trump has cost the GOP the last three elections

[Stuart G]

Source: CNN

By Michelle Watson, CNN
Updated 1:41 PM EST, Sun November 13, 2022

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland said Sunday that former President Donald Trump has cost the GOP the last three elections and it's past time to reassess what's important to the party.

"It's basically the third election in a row that Donald Trump has cost us the race, and it's like, three strikes, you're out," Hogan said during an appearance on "State of the Union" with CNN's Dana Bash.

"This should have been a huge red wave. It should have been one of the biggest red waves we've ever had," added Hogan, who was ineligible to run for a third term in Maryland this year. Despite President Joe Biden's low approval ratings, the governor said his party "still didn't perform."

"I think commonsense conservatives that focused on talking about issues people cared about, like the economy and crime and education, they did win," Hogan said. "But people who tried to relitigate the 2020 election and focused on conspiracy theories ... they were all almost universally rejected."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/13/politics/larry-hogan-trump-republicans-midterms-cnntv/index.html

[elleng]

1. 'commonsense conservatives that focused on talking about issues people cared about,'

like whom???

[msongs]

2. silly Larry the places where repubs did best were cuz of social issues like hate gays, ban abortion

undermine teachers, suppress voting. repubs are not gonna throw out those things, only make them worse

[onecaliberal]

3. No, no, no. Do not allow this narrative. The Republicans went along with trump every step of the way

Do they think a million dead Americans is a fucking joke? NO!

[TheRealNorth]

6. +1000

Most elected Republicans that didn't were turfed out by the MAGA Republicans.

[agingdem]

9. right...Trump's stink is on the Republican Party forever!

they followed a deranged amoral psychopath over a cliff like the odious lemmings they are..separating families, babies in cages, the muslim ban, the wall, racism/antisemitism, shit hole countries, embracing despots, insulting our allies, dissing NATO, withdrawing from global pacts/treaties, teargassing peaceful protesters, overt nepotism, enriching his bottom line and that of his children, downplaying the pandemic, disappearing 300,000 covid deaths, ingesting bleach, sidelining experienced career physicians/scientists in favor of quacks, hacks, and shamans, altering CDC protocols, election interference, inciting an insurrection, whitewashing the January 6 attack on the Capital, stealing classified documents, anointing clown car nobody candidates...all ok as long as they got their tax break for the top 1%, packed the courts with incompetent extremists judges, cheered the demise of Roe v Wade, suppressed the Black vote..but put on their big boy pants and accept responsibility for their midterm disaster?...nope...all Trump's fault...and btw Donald Trump who???

[Marthe48]

19. That was the best post ever!

I don't think you missed a thing. Thank you!

[oswaldactedalone]

25. Totally correct

[Dustlawyer]

26. +1!

[PSPS]

4. Hogan reveals himself as unserious with, "Despite President Joe Biden's low approval ratings"

In fact, this stenographic piece by Watson is an opinion/analysis/feature piece and shouldn't even be in LBN.

[Marthe48]

20. I caught that

I don't believe President has low popularity ratings. I think the media want to make it so, and allow people like larry to make comments that support the tissue of lies the media keeps generating.

[elleng]

23. DITTO.

THANKS, the media want to make it so.

[Raven123]

5. It's not like he was foisted upon them

[The Jungle 1]

7. Well we really need to see...

the TLG and DeSuckme war.
That there is entertainment.

[XanaDUer2]

8. Commonsense?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "commonsense conservatives that focused on talking about issues people cared about...they did win"

No they didn't. There were only a handful of that type... The rest were running in gerrymandered red districts that were configured for them to win. And if they didn't toe the RW crazy line, they were primaried. Which is why all those articles about the hundreds of "election deniers" who were actually on the ballot in the general election and a bunch of them prevailed in their manufactured red bubble locales.

[Cha]

11. Oh Fuck OFF, Hogan .. oh yeah Fascism

"Should" have just come in to America in Fucking "red waves".

Haha the People want Democracy, Asshole.. and the Fuck UP Alito had something to do with the Blue Tsunami, too.

Link to tweet

[50 Shades Of Blue]

12. President Larry Hogan (R), huh?

[elleng]

24. no

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Certainly, history will look back and ask why the GOP allowed Trump to pull them around

like they were attached by a nose ring.

And the key is that they believed the MAGA voter was the way to maintain power.

Strike three on that strategy.

[republianmushroom]

14. and where was this A-O for 6 years under that rock with Newt.

No he was in the line with the RNC, Kevin, Newt, with lips puckered.

[area51]

15. "commonsense conservatives"

Now there's an oxymoron.

[FakeNoose]

17. He's talking about my Grandpa's Republican Party

... and it disappeared when they elected Richard Nixon.

[SouthernDem4ever]

16. I'll say this again,,Their lust for money and power makes them so Effing stupid

It couldn't be because they:

-keep passing laws to limit citizens' ability to vote
-touted getting rid of Social Security and Medicare
-keep trying to pass more laws banning abortion and contraception
-keep trying to turn us into a religious state
-deny marital rights to segments of the poplulation
-support insurrectionists
-hate climate policy
-try to abolish public education
-think minimum wage is too high
-think there was a war on christmas that never existed
-lie through their teeth to get elected
-think they are all above the law
-think the 2nd amendment means the average joe should have weapons of war


No, it's all dump's fault.

[Marthe48]

18. Hate to tell ya Larry but

we also rejected r's because even the 'commonsense convervatives' don't have solutions, or have solutions we don't like, like cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, Medicaid, cutting education, leaving a raise in minimum wage on the table, voting no on every single bill put up for a vote, and then taking credit for improvements they had nothing to do with, relegating women and minorities to the back seat, the back burner, the back of the bus, or out on the street, and putting lying judges on the bench. You know, stuff like that. I don't care if you're a responsible never trumper. You are still an r and you still ignore the voice of the people and the needs of the people. So b'bye.

[lefthandedskyhook]

21. Will we need a new stalking horse?

A great plan will make all that irrelevant. The Green New Deal comes to mind. We must sow those seeds in this fertile political ground and roll this revolution forward

[maxsolomon]

22. Good. The Party got conned by *; they deserve everything they get.

And they were already uniformly awful. I remember the last 50 years.

[Stuart G]

27. "No truer words have never been spoken or written" K & R your statement.

[Kennah]

28. Hat Trick! Go for four!