Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) released a video on Monday calling for the Republican Party to chart a new path forward in the years ahead, a move likely to stoke further speculation that he is moving toward a White House run in 2024.
The video, released by Hogan’s advocacy group An America United, draws heavily on a speech the Maryland governor gave last month at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, in which he warned of pending political trouble for the GOP and outlined and called on the party to expand its electoral coalition moving forward.
“We are once again at a time for choosing,” Hogan says in the video. “Are we going to be a party that can’t win national elections or are we willing to do the hard work of building a durable coalition that can shape our nation’s destiny.”
“Look, I’m a guy that tells it like it is,” he continues. “So here’s a truth that our party needs to hear: no one will listen to our message if they don’t believe that we’re listening to them.”
The video is likely to fuel speculation that Hogan may be moving toward a 2024 presidential campaign. Allies of the Maryland governor say that he has not yet made a decision on a White House bid, but he has also refused to rule one out.
In an interview on Bloomberg’s “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations” last month, Hogan said that he is not “ready to launch any campaigns” and that he is focused on serving out the remainder of his term as governor, which ends in 2023. But he also said that he wants to be “part of the discussion about where we go as a party and where we go as a country” in the years ahead.
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WATCH: Maryland's Larry Hogan releases video calling for change within GOP, asks: "Are we going to be a party that can’t win national elections?" https://t.co/ifnz9TSX7p pic.twitter.com/vcgH2TMiXy
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