Lara Trump Denounces Larry Hogan
The GOP co-chair follows her father-in-law and puts family loyalty above winning Senate seats.


WSJ Editorial Board
Is the Republican Party an operation dedicated to smaller government and conservative victories? Or is it now a subsidiary of the Trump Organization? This is worth pondering, given that Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee’s new co-chair, is suggesting she might pull the party’s support for its own Senate nominee in Maryland, Larry Hogan.

When news came last Thursday that a New York jury had reached a verdict in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, Mr. Hogan called for calm. “Regardless of the result,” he wrote online, minutes before the conviction was announced, “I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process. At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders—regardless of party—must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship.”

Mr. Hogan, who was Maryland’s popular Governor from 2015-23, might be the only man in America who could potentially win this Senate seat for the GOP. His state in 2020 picked President Biden over Mr. Trump by more than 2 to 1. Mr. Hogan is pitching himself as a centrist fed up with “partisan B.S.” If he can deliver an unexpected win in November, that could give Republicans control of the Senate, along with the power in 2025 and 2026 to either block Mr. Biden’s agenda or pass Mr. Trump’s.

The head of the Republican National Committee ought to understand this. But what Mr. Trump always puts first is blind personal loyalty to himself. He has now made the RNC into a family fief, and his daughter-in-law Lara is of the same mind. Hence her reply when asked about Mr. Hogan’s mild plea not to fuel partisan fires, which was perhaps the minimum he needed to say to satisfy Maryland voters.

“He doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican Party at this point, and quite frankly, anybody in America,” Ms. Trump told CNN. Is she willing to expend GOP resources to help Mr. Hogan win? “I’ll get back to you on all the specifics, monetarily, but what I can tell you is that, as the Republican Party co-chair, I think he should never have said something like that. I think that’s ridiculous.”

A national party needs to be a big tent to secure a majority. Ms. Trump, the GOP’s co-chair, sounds as if she’d choose a Democratic Senate over a Republican Senate that includes the likes of Larry Hogan. This kind of thing is one reason that even if Mr. Trump wins this fall, he will find it hard to govern.





(Mistake in the thread title. Sould be "RNC.")

The scorched earth BS is not helping right now. This was a moment to observe that old saying, if you don’t have anything nice to say, just STFU. I don’t think the one whipping the pants off all the other candidates needs to make these remarks about other Republicans.

The RNC exists in name only, it is now the TNC.

Are you implying that what he said is improper???

rfenst, no. I meant that the co-chair of the RNC doesn’t need to be over reacting and putting every other Republican on blast if they say something the Trump campaign doesn’t like. Hogan said something respectable and mature that shows concern for general welfare of all the people involved. Lara Trump is out of line this time, IMHO. We don’t need to foment civil unrest that could lead to violence or lead to protesters being put in jail for extended periods of time.

EDIT: I like Lara Trump. I just think she was out of line with her remarks

Well, we are in complete agreement.

Reporter Aishah Hasnie on Trump and Hogan:

“TRUMP tells me: “I'd like to see him win. I think he has a good chance to win… I know other people made some strong statements, but I can just say from my standpoint, I'm about the party and I'm about the country. And I would like to see him win.”“

This "Lefty" is probably voting for him... if he was running for Prez he would have my vote over Biden...

Charles, you’re voting for Trump if he gets nominated? That’s terrific news, buddy!

😂 😝

So when is Donald going to denounce Laura?
Or maybe he wasn't anti Hogan at all, ever?
Or maybe when Laura Trump denounced Hogan, what she really meant was she supports him, right?

It is a Trumpian Trait.

And a leftist trait to nitpick, you got your quote from the man himself.

Typical. That is what Trump would have done.
-Not answer the question.
-Try to spin away from question and blame the questioner.

Someday the fever will break.