{"id":1553329,"date":"2022-07-13T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T03:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553329"},"modified":"2022-07-13T23:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T03:19:33","slug":"maryland-gop-gubernatorial-primary-a-bitter-trump-hogan-proxy-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-gop-gubernatorial-primary-a-bitter-trump-hogan-proxy-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland GOP Gubernatorial Primary a Bitter Trump-Hogan Proxy Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaryland-gop-gubernatorial-primary-a-bitter-trump-hogan-proxy-battle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553329&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During and after his tenure in the White House, there was no love lost between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maryland\">Maryland<\/a>\u2019s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who was and remains among the former president\u2019s most outspoken critics from within the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>With Hogan term-limited and reportedly pondering a run for the presidency himself, that enmity has carried over into Maryland\u2019s July 19 GOP gubernatorial primary to select the party\u2019s candidate to succeed the popular governor\u2014a Republican twice-elected to lead a Democrat-dominated state.<\/p>\n<p>There are four candidates on the Republican gubernatorial ballot, but the contest boils down to a two-way battle between Hogan-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellyschulzforgovernor.com\">Kelly Schulz<\/a>\u2014a moderate who served in his cabinet as labor secretary and commerce secretary\u2014and Trump-endorsed state Del. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coxforfreedom.com\/\">Dan Cox<\/a> (R-Frederick)\u2014a conservative attorney who sponsored a failed bid to impeach the governor in March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/14\/Cox.png\"><\/a> Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox meets with Donald Trump in May, six months after securing the former president\u2019s endorsement in his primary clash with Kelly Schultz, who is backed by Trump critic and term-limited Gov. Larry Hogan. (Courtesy of Cox for Freedom) <\/p>\n<p>The winner of what is projected to be a tight race between Schultz and Cox in November will face the Democrat who emerges victorious from their nine-candidate primary scrum.<\/p>\n<p>With the state\u2019s July 7-14 early voting period drawing to a close, turnout for primary elections has been light, reports the Maryland State Board of Elections (MSBE). The state\u2019s primary slate includes inter-party races for governor, attorney general, comptroller, one U.S. Senate seat, eight U.S. House seats, the state legislature, and local races.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the last primary in a non-presidential election year, 872,207 people\u2014about 24 percent of eligible voters\u2014cast ballots, with 30,122 mailing them in.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2022 midterm primaries, more than 500,000 Marylanders have requested mail-in ballots, with about 115,000 returned by July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During and after his tenure in the White House, there was no love lost between Donald Trump and Maryland\u2019s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who was and remains among the former president\u2019s most outspoken critics from within the Republican Party. With Hogan term-limited and reportedly pondering a run for the presidency himself, that enmity has carried [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}