MD-SEN: Hogan (R) still trying to explain his new position on abortion. [View all]
Republican Senate nominee Larry Hogan’s pivot on abortion landed with a thunderclap in Maryland this week, with Democrats incredulous, Republican leaders largely indifferent and some voters warily embracing him anew. In Hogan’s telling Friday, a day after publicly describing himself as “pro-choice” for the first time, “it really wasn’t a major transformation.”
The former two-term governor noted the conservative wing of the Republican Party had been calling him a RINO — Republican In Name Only — about his abortion position for years. Hogan, who embraced populist views over party orthodoxy, has long had tension with conservatives but also cross-party appeal in the deep-blue state — an asset he is counting on as he faces the Democratic nominee, Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks........
Democratic leaders scoffed at Hogan, who as governor in 2022 vetoed legislation to expand abortion access, and described his new viewpoint as nothing more than a calculated political ploy.
“When somebody has a lifetime of being antiabortion and then somebody listens to their pollster and listens to their consultants and changes their position two days after a primary, I think people say, ‘Come on, man.’ It’s just not believable,” Maryland Democratic Party Chair Ken Ulman said in an interview.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/17/hogan-abortion-senate-alsobrooks/
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