(CNN)Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan sounds, to all the world, like a man ready to run for president in 2024.
"I'm concerned about the direction of the party and the country," he told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday. "And I'll make a decision about 2024 after I finish this job."
While things do change -- and Hogan made clear that he won't turn to seriously considering the Republican presidential primary race until he finishes out his second term as governor in January 2023 -- it does seem likely that he will run for the Oval Office in two years' time.
A few things are true about that race:
3) Hogan is smart and is well aware of both #1 and #2.
The answer is, I think, that Hogan is after something more than just running a decidedly uphill primary race against the former President. He is trying to represent a place where the resistance to the Trump cult of personality can congregate, in hopes of preserving a more traditional view of conservatism than the former President's wild populism.
"We want to make sure that we do stand up and speak out," Hogan told Tapper. "But I'm concerned that they're focusing too much on looking at the past and trying to relitigate the last election and arguing about things instead of having a positive, hopeful vision for America."
To be clear: Those Republicans uninterested in falling in line behind Trump -- and his outrageous and false claims that the 2020 election was stolen -- are not a majority of the current party. In a CNN poll released over the...
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