Lar­ry Hogan, a cen­trist Repub­li­can, says Tim Walz is no cen­trist Demo­c­rat

EXCLUSIVE — Lar­ry Hogan, the for­mer two-term cen­trist gov­er­nor try­ing to flip a Mary­land Sen­ate seat red for the first time in four decades, is will­ing to extend per­son­al acco­lades to Demo­c­ra­t­ic vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Tim Walz.
But not when it comes to the poli­cies of Walz, a red-dis­trict-Min­neso­ta-con­gress­man-turned-pro­gres­sive-gov­er­nor.
“He’s a down-to-earth guy who con­nects well with peo­ple and seems like a reg­u­lar guy,” Hogan told the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er dur­ing a Thurs­day cam­paign stop. “Plain spo­ken, which some peo­ple would say I’m a lot like that. But we’re com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent on pol­i­cy. He’s not a cen­trist.”
That doesn’t mean, how­ev­er, that he agrees with the “rad­i­cal” label Repub­li­cans have tacked on to Walz since Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris announced him as her run­ning mate this week.
“I don’t know that I would put that kind of a label on any­one or on him,” Hogan said. “I think we ought to just focus on the issues a …