Self-described “Catholic” and “Republican” senate candidate Larry Hogan is advocating for “restoring Roe v. Wade because the legislation of the land.”
Hogan beforehand served because the governor of Maryland.
“As governor, I protected the rights of Maryland girls to make their very own reproductive well being selections. I’ll do the identical within the Senate by restoring Roe v. Wade because the legislation of the land. Nobody ought to come between a lady and her physician,” Hogan wrote in a submit on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter.
As governor, I protected the rights of Maryland girls to make their very own reproductive well being selections. I’ll do the identical within the Senate by restoring Roe v. Wade because the legislation of the land. Nobody ought to come between a lady and her physician.https://t.co/i3Izh3Kn7G
— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) May 16, 2024
The candidate additionally linked to an article from the New York Times headlined, “Hogan Backs Codifying Roe, Tacking Left on Abortion Forward of a Powerful Race.”
Hogan advised the newspaper that he’s “pro-choice.”
The Occasions stories:
Requested whether or not he seen himself as “pro-life” or “pro-choice,” Mr. Hogan stated, “Given the definition of what I’m supporting — girls’s rights to make their very own resolution — I might say that’s pro-choice.”
It was a significant tack to the left for Mr. Hogan, a Catholic who has lengthy stated his private beliefs about abortion wouldn’t intrude together with his stance that the problem is settled in state legislation. The transfer got here as the previous governor is heading right into a difficult common election marketing campaign within the solidly Democratic state of Maryland whose end result might decide which occasion controls the Senate.
The Blaze notes that Hogan doesn’t assist former President Donald Trump.
“Hogan, who served as Maryland’s governor from early 2015 by means of early 2023, has by no means voted for Donald Trump however wrote in his father Larry Hogan Sr. in 2016 and the late President Ronald Reagan in 2020. He has stated that he won’t vote for Trump or Biden this yr,” the report states.
Hogan has been overtly courting Democrat voters as a substitute of these from his personal occasion.
“I’m excited to launch Democrats for Hogan and have my good buddy and former Democratic State Senator Bobby Zirkin on our crew,” Hogan wrote in a submit on X. “To my Democratic and Impartial associates, you recognize me and you recognize my confirmed monitor document of reaching throughout the aisle to search out widespread floor for the widespread good. You realize that I’ve the braveness to place folks over politics and to place nation over occasion. I’ll proceed to be the identical robust unbiased chief for Maryland that I all the time have been.”
I’m excited to launch Democrats for Hogan and have my good buddy and former Democratic State Senator Bobby Zirkin on our crew.
To my Democratic and Impartial associates, you recognize me and you recognize my confirmed monitor document of reaching throughout the aisle to search out widespread floor for the… pic.twitter.com/JGsNZyGhmS
— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) May 15, 2024
Hogan added, “In case you are utterly fed up with the divisiveness and dysfunction and desire a robust, unbiased chief who will battle to scrub up the mess in Washington—then be part of us.”