„Just because you can win a race doesn’t mean that’s the job you should do if your heart’s not in it,“ said Maryland’s governor, who has rejected a Senate run.
Maryland’s GOP governor, Larry Hogan, rejected a run for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, making the odds slim that the deep-blue state’s seat will go Republican in next November’s election. Efforts to recruit Hogan to run for Senate included pushes from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans. They were hoping that Hogan would be able to break a GOP losing streak in Maryland and help them alter the evenly split Senate’s makeup in their favor. But now the GOP may have lost its best chance for electing a Republican senator in the largely Democratic state. Hogan said running for Senate would not allow him to effectively finish his term as governor. Speaking Tuesday to reporters in Maryland’s capital, Annapolis, he said, „A number of people have said that they thought I could make a difference in the Senate and be a voice of common sense and moderation.
