Larry Hogan, the former U.S. Republican governor of Maryland who positioned himself as one of his party's fiercest critics of Donald Trump, said Sunday he will not challenge the ex-president for the GOP's White House nomination in 2024.
"I would never run for president to sell books or position myself for a Cabinet role," the 66-year-old Hogan wrote in The New York Times. "I have long said that I care more about ensuring a future for the Republican Party than securing my own future in the Republican Party. And that is why I will not be seeking the Republican nomination for president."
"He's very tough," Hogan said. "But, you know, I beat life-threatening cancer. So having Trump call me names on Twitter didn't -- didn't really scare me off." Some Republicans had hoped that Hogan, emerging as the new best hope of a small group of "Never Trump Republicans," would challenge Trump in 2020. But a year after Hogan's reelection in 2018, he said that while he appreciated "all of the encouragement" he had received to run for president, he would not. Hogan told The Associated Press he had no interest in a "kamikaze mission.
Hogan had never held elected office before and in his first year as governor, he focused on pocketbook issues. He lowered tolls, an action he could take without approval from the General Assembly, long controlled by Democrats. But he was also presented with challenges, including unrest in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in 2015. Hogan sent the National Guard to prevent further rioting.
"I did not go out of my way to criticize the president," Hogan said. "But unlike a lot of Republicans, I'm not the guy that's just going to sit down and shut up and not stand up and say something if I think something's going wrong."
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