Marjorie Taylor Greene, AOC take center stage in new GOP ad boosting Maryland centrist Senate candidate Larry Hogan who will combat ‘divisiveness’ in DC
Maryland Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan has released a new $2 million ad set to air Wednesday that showcases his centrist beliefs but isn’t afraid to anger the right wing of his party.
The ad opens with a clip of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, and the words “divisiveness” and “blockade.” The ad then switches to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
It highlights Hogan’s support for abortion rights and his opposition to “extreme Project 2025” — a Heritage Foundation policy plan that has become a favorite target for Democrats and that even Trump himself has condemned.
The plan includes ideas such as banning abortion and banning transgender people from the military.
“We cannot heal our divisions by electing the same partisan politicians,” the ad says. “We need independent leaders who will stand up for us and Maryland and make a broken system healthy again.”
Maryland Senate Republican candidate Larry Hogan is launching a new $2 million ad that will air on the airwaves Wednesday, showcasing his centrist beliefs without fear of angering the right wing of his party.
“Larry Hogan lowered taxes, tolls and fees every year. Larry Hogan made housing and healthcare more affordable. He supports restoring women’s right to choose, everywhere, and will fight the extreme Project 2025,” the ad continues.
“It’s time we put people over politics,” Hogan says at the end, recalling a favorite slogan of House Democrats.
The ad, funded by both Hogan’s campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of Senate Republicans, will run on television stations across Maryland.
Hogan, who belongs to a dying breed of outspoken anti-Trump Republicans, told DailyMail.com in an interview Tuesday that he’s “never really thought about parties.”
“I always tried to meet people personally and convince them that I would represent all the people of Maryland.”
Hogan served as the state’s governor from 2015 to 2023. He was ranked the third-most popular governor in the country with an approval rating of nearly 70 percent in 2022, according to a Morning Consult poll. But his popularity has had little effect on lower-vote Republicans as Maryland has become an increasingly blue state over the years.
Biden won 65 percent over Trump in 2020. And this year, Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has a 48 percent to 39 percent lead over Hogan in the Senate race, according to a RealClearPolitics polling average.
Hogan pays little attention to polls, he says.
The week of the elections [in 2014] They said I was 12 points down. We won by five. So the only thing that matters is November.’
“I said I was the underdog. What I’m trying to do has never been done before, but I think we can do it.”