Ex-governor pulls back from running for Republican nomination but says question of third-party run ‘keeps popping up’
: “I haven’t ruled that out. But it’s not something I’m really working toward or thinking about” even though “the question keeps popping up more and more”.
“There are several competent Republican leaders who have the potential to step up and lead. But the stakes are too high for me to risk being part of another multi-car pile-up that could potentially help Mr Trump recapture the nomination.” Polling has also shown vanishingly small interest in Hogan among voters in a Republican party dominated by Trump and DeSantis.
He said No Labels, a centrist group of which he is an honorary co-chair, had “raised about $50m to get [ballot] access in all 50 states as kind of an insurance policy” for an “in case of emergency break glass” scenario.
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