Alsobrooks: “Being a Senator requires you to take tough votes”

Republican Larry Hogan told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer last night that he will not vote in the presidential election, despite his campaign running ads encouraging voters to split their vote for Hogan and Harris, the Baltimore Banner reports. 

EVERGREEN QUOTE: ALSOBROOKS ON HOGAN’S REFUSAL TO VOTE AGAINST TRUMP: “Rather than stand up, do the right thing, choose a tough vote and vote for a Democrat, [Hogan] voted for a deceased individual and said he will do so again in this election. And I think it is instructive of the way that he would operate as a Senator. Unable to make tough calls and to go, to do what is, what he declares as bipartisan. This is the most bipartisan thing you can do.”

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT. 

Baltimore Banner: Former Gov. Hogan’s vote for president? Sounds like nobody at all

By Pamela Wood

October 29, 2024

• Speaking on CNN on Tuesday evening, Hogan indicated that he’ll skip over president completely, rather than vote for Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris.
  
  
• “So you’re just not going to vote for the presidential candidate? You’re going to leave that blank when you go to the polling booth?” Blitzer asked, as Hogan nodded affirmatively and seemed to quietly say “yes.”
  
  
• In recent days, the Maryland Democratic Party has criticized Hogan for not taking his anti-Trump position far enough to cast a vote for Harris. The party has noted that Hogan has a TV ad airing now that features a voter saying she’s supporting both Harris and Hogan — but that Hogan isn’t supporting Harris himself.
  
  
• A recent press release from the Democratic Party was headlined: “Hogan Refuses to Put Country Over the Republican Party and Support Kamala Harris for President.”
  
  
• “Hogan’s talk about bipartisanship is nothing but empty rhetoric,” the statement said.