Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) condemned the “toxic policies” in his latest State of the State address, noting that the United States was “bitterly divided” while criticizing a new congressional map the Democrats for their 188 seats in the General Assembly provide significant benefits to Maryland, suggesting they are ultimately undermining democracy.
“We need to bring back trust and fairness to our political system by allowing voters to choose their elected officials instead of letting politicians choose their voters,” Hogan said during his address. “Gerrymandering is partisanship at its worst. It’s a cancer to our democracy, and Maryland has the unfortunate distinction of having the worst and most manipulated counties in America.”
Hogan made headlines earlier this week after saying that “the stakes are too high” for former President Donald Trump to stay in office for another four years, should he win re-election in 2024.
“With America on the wrong track, the stakes are too high to double down if it fails,” Hogan said in an interview with Fox News, adding, “My friend, Governor Hutchinson, is absolutely right.”
Hogan was referring to Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), who stressed that he did not believe the 2020 general election was stolen, despite Trump’s claims, which have been refuted multiple times.
“First of all, I don’t think the election was stolen and I respect the results,” Hutchinson said. “They have been challenged as needed and the result is the fact thatPresident Bidenis in office”.
Hogan has openly criticized Trump on numerous occasions, noting more recently that Trump has angered Republicans who have not subscribed to his falsehoods about the election.
“It’s crazy. We’ve got the former president after all these really good elected Republicans, and so I’m trying to support people who I think deserve to be in office,” Hogan said last month. We try to help people wherever we can and I’m sure we will do a lot more of that.”
In his State of the State address, Hogan found time to conjure up the Jan. 6 riot, the day a mob of Trump supporters, spurred on by his lies about the integrity of the 2020 general election, attacked the United States Capitol in order to To curb the electoral certificate of victory of then-candidate Joe Biden.
“I speak to you tonight from the Old Senate Chamber of our historic State House in Annapolis,” Hogan said. “It was in this very chamber that General George Washington relinquished his command of the Continental Forces and laid the foundations for a new republic in the first peaceful transfer of power in our history.”
Hogan has said that after all the controversy surrounding the insurgency, nominating Trump in 2024 would be “bad for the Republican Party and the country as a whole.”
Alan is a New York-based writer, editor, and news junkie.
