Maryland Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan has launched a new $2 million ad set to air Wednesday that showcases his centrist credentials without fear of angering his party’s right wing.
The first shot of the ad is a clip of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and the words “division” and “gridlock.” The ad then cuts 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 line of attack for Democrats and that even Trump himself has denounced.
The plan includes ideas such as working to ban abortion and excluding trans people from the military.
“We cannot overcome our division by electing the same partisan politicians,” the ad says. “We need independent leaders who will stand up for us and Maryland, and bring sanity to a broken system.”
Maryland Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan has launched a new $2 million ad set to air Wednesday that showcases his centrist credibility without fear of angering his party’s right wing.
“Larry Hogan cut 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 extremist Bill 2025,” the ad continues.
“It’s time to 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 Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, will play on television stations across Maryland.
Hogan, part of a dying breed of openly anti-Trump Republicans, told DailyMail.com in an interview on Tuesday that he has “never really thought about party.”
“I always tried to go out and meet with people one on one and convince them that I was going to represent all the people of Maryland.”
Hogan served as governor of the state from 2015 to 2023. According to a Morning Consult poll, he ranked third among the most popular governors in the country in 2022, with an approval rating of nearly 70 percent. However, his popularity had little effect on the election for Republicans, as Maryland has become an increasingly Democratic state over the years.
Biden won by 65 percent over Trump in 2020. And this year, Democrat Angela Alsobrooks leads Hogan in the Senate race 48 to 39 percent, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls.
Hogan pays little attention to polls, he says.
“The week of the election (in 2014) they said I was losing by 12 points. We won by five. So the only thing that matters is November.”
“I said I was an underdog, what I’m trying to do has never been done before, but I think we’re going to do it.”