Maryland Senate Republican nominee Larry Hogan sought to strike a neutral tone to former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict on Thursday, contrasting the GOP’s message that it was a “rigged” political process.
Hogan, a former two-term governor and centrist Republican, said in a statement before the guilty verdict was handed down by a jury in Trump’s New York hush-money trial that Americans should “respect the verdict and the legal process” — regardless of the result.
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“At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders — regardless of party — must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship,” Hogan said. “We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law.”
He was met with swift rebuke from Trump campaign senior advisor Chris LaCivita, who suggested Hogan sealed his own political fate in a deep blue state. A longtime anti-Trump Republican, Hogan will need all the GOP voters he can muster in order to flip the open Senate seat red.
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