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Maryland's governor looks forward to post-Trump GOP [View all]
"I think the party has a winning message. We just had a bad messenger."
By DAVID COHEN
02/14/2021 10:18 AM EST
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sunday he sees a clear path forward for the Republican Party without Donald Trump.
Hogan, one of Trump's more frequent critics within the GOP, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the party needs to build coalitions that are not constructed around loyalty to the former president.
"I think that if they really want to win competitive seats in purple states and if they want to win suburban districts," Hogan said, "if we want to somehow get back the House and the Senate, if we want to win a presidential election, they're going to have to start building coalitions like we've done here in one of the bluest states in the country where you can have a message that appeals to more people."
While decrying "a hostile takeover of the Republican Party" in discussing pro-Trump forces, Hogan pointed both toward the party's history and the 2020 elections in offering a new direction.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/14/larry-hogan-republicans-trump-469016
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