Anti-abortion rights senator and NRSC Chairman Steve Daines: Hogan “is running a great race”
National Republicans are once again making it clear that they see Republican Larry Hogan as key to winning the Senate majority and pushing forward an agenda that’s out of step with Marylanders, including a nationwide abortion ban.
The Baltimore Sun reported today that Steve Daines, who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and wants to ban abortion nationwide, thinks Hogan “is running a great race.” In other words, Republican leaders continue to praise Larry Hogan because they share a common goal: taking back the Republican majority in the Senate.
Hogan – who was personally recruited by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to help Republicans regain the Senate majority – has also received millions of dollars from GOP megadonors, including $10 million from major Republican donor Kenneth Griffin.
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Baltimore Sun: Senate Republican campaign chief calls Larry Hogan a ‘maverick’ while GOP megadonors embrace his candidacy
By Jeff Barker
July 31, 2024
- [Steve Daines, t]he head of the U.S. Senate Republican campaign committee on Tuesday called former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan a “maverick” who… “is running a great race.”
- Hogan had been encouraged to enter the race by Mitch McConnell.
- Alsobrooks has repeatedly sought to tie Hogan to the national GOP effort — led by Daines — to secure a Senate majority.
- In June, Trump all but endorsed Hogan’s campaign.
- In an opinion piece published Tuesday in The Hill, Hogan wrote that he would be “a completely different kind of senator.”
- The Maryland Democratic Party countered in a news release that Hogan “is once again trying to cover up the fact that could be the 51st seat Republicans need to secure their majority and push forward an agenda that’s out of step with Marylanders.”
- The release cited fundraising efforts on Hogan’s behalf by Sen. John Thune, a South Dakotan who is looking to replace McConnell as the GOP’s Senate leader later this year.
- In February, a Super PAC called “Maryland’s Future” launched a week after Hogan entered the race. The PAC was seeded March 6 with $10 million from major Republican donor Kenneth Griffin, head of the Citadel LLC hedge fund. Griffin has been a Hogan supporter, contributing $6,600 to Hogan’s campaign on Feb. 29, according to Federal Election Commission reports.
- Hogan has also received $10,000 in donations from the Republican Majority Fund, a PAC affiliated with Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton. Former casino mogul Steve Wynn, an early Trump supporter, and his wife, Andrea, have given Hogan’s campaign $13,200, according to FEC records. Wealthy Trump ally Stephen Schwarzman and his wife, Christine, also contributed $13,200 to Hogan earlier this year.
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