This is a old thread, but it's hilarious to read many of the hysterical responses on this in hindsight, given how Hogan has consistently been among the nation's most popular Governors and has governed as a moderate pragmatist. Reading this, you'd think Hogan was a fire-breathing, extremist demagogue.
Also how everyone was convinced he'd be gone after one term like Bob Ehrlich. He is very underrated, and I can't wait to go work on his presidential campaign in 2024.
I'm skeptical that Hogan can win the Republican nomination, given the direction in which the Party's electorate has turned, but I certainly wouldn't have an issue voting for him, if he made it that far. But then again, four years is an eternity in politics, so we'll see what happens. His reelection in 2018 was very impressive, given the "wave" environment for Democrats in urban and suburban America, of which Maryland is so heavily a part.
It kind of reminds me of Mike Beebe getting reelected AR Governor in an uneventful landslide even as the rest of his party was collapsing and Democrats in comparable places were being obliterated.
