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After the 2020 election, it was widely believed that the Republican Party was at a crossroads. One option is to remain in former President Donald Trump’s party, and the other option is to look to new leaders like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, or Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. This is the path to which we should turn.
Four years later, Republicans are now asking a different question as the next election approaches. “Why not both?”
Hogan, a popular two-term Republican governor of sapphire-blue Maryland and a frequent critic of Donald Trump, won the primary, leaving him with a good chance of flipping the Senate seat and perhaps the Senate itself. ing.
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There’s a lot to think about in the results of the Old Line state’s Republican primary, with Trump winning 80% of the Republican vote and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley winning an embarrassing 20% despite abstaining. However, Hogan only won 62% of the votes. Among these voters.
Mr. Hogan is doing himself no favors by refusing to support Mr. Trump, who was chosen by Republican voters for president. It looks more like a fit of anger than good politics.
Democrats and independents in Maryland, where Mr. Hogan could win, don’t care whether Mr. Hogan likes Mr. Trump or not. They care about inflation, borders, crime, and woke campus chaos.
Simply put, it’s time for Larry to join the team and for Haley to support Trump.
What we’re seeing in this miasma of numbers in Maryland, and also in neighboring West Virginia, where former Democrat and now Republican Governor Jim Justice is trying to flip Joe Manchin’s Senate seat, is not just about winning in 2024, but for much, much longer.
When I took my first breath in 1974, Democrats had controlled the House of Representatives for 20 years. It took another 20 years before Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” shook its grip.
Forty years of this kind of majority power may seem alien and distant to political observers today, but it is precisely what must be the Republican goal if we are to undo the damage done by Democratic dominance in the second half of the 20th century.
For the first time in 100 years, the Republican Party can be the party that sets a long-term agenda and controls the political playing field, rather than simply shouting “stop it” and standing up to history.
Trump, who drew tens of thousands of New Jersey Democrats, brought non-white working-class voters to the race, while DeSantis and Youngkin appealed to suburban women and Haley and Hogan represented the old Republican Party that can and should still be in the race.
This goal of dominance is well within reach if the Republican Party offers a large base with broad support rather than a narrow purity test. In fact, a Republican Party that can simultaneously attract Trump supporters, Haley supporters, and Hogan supporters may already exist.
The man who seems to understand all of this best seems, perhaps surprisingly, to be Trump himself. While House Speaker Mike Johnson may have a hard time holding together a divisive and tumultuous caucus, Trump has done it very well.
After all, standing behind Trump at the courthouse photo op were not only his staunch supporters Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), but also Johnson and moderate Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.) — the Republican mainstream was there in Congress.
The other side of this coin of opportunity that is so close to being grasped by the Republican Party is the dire and almost comical division of a Democratic Party mired in discord.
Simply put, it’s time for Larry to join the team and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to endorse Donald Trump.
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In November 2022, Republicans were gearing up to fight each other. For much of 2023, harsh words were thrown lightly in the heat of the primary election.
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Such a situation will not exist in November 2024. Instead of a fork in the road or two paths, Republicans can forge one broad path, win big and establish an electoral bridgehead.
Only if that happens, for the first time in a long time, real and lasting change will be possible, and that’s exactly what the American people want.
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