Donald Trump’s involvement in midterms could hurt Republicans, says Larry Hogan, Maryland GOP governor

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“If the former president interferes with the primaries and tries to help nominate people who can’t be elected to a general election in, say, districts and purple states, that will hurt,” Hogan told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” it adds is an issue that must be fought.

Trump has not said whether he will run for re -election in the 2024 presidential campaign but continues to have an influential grip on the Republican party. He endorsed Virginia Gov. elect Glenn Youngkin, who distanced himself from the former president during the gubernatorial race and continues to sell lies about the 2020 election. Former New Jersey Gov. warned. Chris Christie, a Republican and frequent critic of Trump, said Saturday that the party must go beyond Trump’s arrangement in the 2020 election to continue political victories like the one in Virginia. Youngkin’s main message during his campaign focused on education, while former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe focused much of his campaign message on Trump. A businessman, Youngkin defeated McAuliffe in a state that President Joe Biden won by double digits last year. Winsome Sears and Jason Miyares – both Republicans – were elected lieutenant governor and attorney general in the state. Republicans also took full control of the Virginia House of Delegates. Republicans have not won a statewide commonwealth election since 2009, though Virginia has historically elected a governor from the opposite party of the recently elected president.

Hogan agreed with Christie, telling Bash that the former president is unlikely to leave the political arena and the party “cannot look back and continue to recite” the 2020 election.

“We need to look at ’22 and ’24, and we need to have a message that appeals to more people,” he said. “It’s not about the former president but there’s no question, Glenn Youngkin did a great job of not separating that base. But Trump never stepped on the state, which is a good thing for Glenn Youngkin and the country.”

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