{"id":2297832,"date":"2024-07-17T12:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hogan-both-sides-must-ditch-toxic-rhetoric-after-trump-shooting-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:14:09","slug":"hogan-calls-for-an-end-to-divisive-language-following-trump-shooting-washington-examiner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hogan-calls-for-an-end-to-divisive-language-following-trump-shooting-washington-examiner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogan calls for an end to divisive language following Trump shooting &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fhogan-calls-for-an-end-to-divisive-language-following-trump-shooting-washington-examiner-2%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=2297832&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>Larry Hogan, a Maryland \u2063Republican Senate hopeful, \u200dhas called \u200cfor both political parties to tone down their rhetoric following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iraqi-govt-blames-shiite-groups-for-botched-attack-on-prime-minister-2\/\" title=\"Iraqi Govt. blames Shi\u2019ite groups for botched attack on prime minister\">recent assassination attempt<\/a> \u200con former President \u200dDonald Trump. Hogan emphasized the need to lower the temperature and move away\u200d from \u2064divisive and toxic politics. \u2063He also highlighted the \u2063importance of bringing the country \u2063together and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-hosts-united-auto-workers-boss-for-unscheduled-meeting-as-strike-looms\/\" title=\"Biden meets with UAW leader amidst looming strike.\">finding \u2062common ground<\/a> between Democrats and\u200c Republicans. Hogan, who is \u2063running against a \u200dDemocrat \u200din\u2064 a\u2063 race that could determine\u2064 Senate \u200ccontrol, stressed the need for civil dialogue\u200d and \u200crespectful disagreement on important issues. As an anti-Trump Republican in deep-blue Maryland, Hogan faces \u200cchallenges but remains committed to his vision of unity and collaboration.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Hogan calls for &lsquo;both sides&rsquo; to ditch &lsquo;toxic&rsquo; rhetoric after Trump assassination attempt<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1669325\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>SUITLAND, Maryland &mdash; <\/strong>Maryland Republican Senate hopeful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3085673\/larry-hogan-biden-ability-leader-free-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Larry Hogan\">Larry Hogan<\/a> is looking to both political parties to turn down the heated rhetoric in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3086391\/four-unanswered-questions-about-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Larry Hogan\">assassination attempt<\/a> on former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;tragic incident,&rdquo; as the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/larry-hogan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"two-term centrist GOP governor\">two-term centrist GOP governor<\/a> described it, was fueled by &ldquo;divisive rhetoric and angry, toxic politics&rdquo; from Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hogan-calls-for-an-end-to-divisive-language-following-trump-shooting-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Hogan calls for an end to divisive language following Trump shooting - Washington Examiner\">dangerous inflection point<\/a> where it&rsquo;s like a tinderbox, and everyone needs to be careful with their words,&rdquo; Hogan told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> during a campaign stop to meet with veterans Tuesday. &ldquo;Words from either side that kind of make it worse are something that we don&rsquo;t need right now. I&rsquo;ve been long a proponent of lowering the temperature and finding a way to do away with the divisive rhetoric and the angry, toxic politics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &ldquo;Frankly, it&rsquo;s not just what the Democrats said or what the Republicans &mdash; it&rsquo;s both sides need to just start finding a way to bring the country together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Drawing contrast, many Republicans have faulted the rhetoric from President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies for the shooting that grazed Trump, left one spectator dead, and injured two others. <\/p>\n<p>Hogan is facing Prince George&rsquo;s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, a Democrat, in the race that could determine control of the Senate. The battleground contest between the two has been, by all accounts, fairly cordial.<\/p>\n<p>The pair embraced after running into each other at a July 4 parade. Hogan declined to say Tuesday that Alsobrooks was part of the &ldquo;toxic&rdquo; politics dilemma facing the country.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re just trying to stay focused on the issues that matter to most Marylanders,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We disagree on issues. But hopefully, we can keep it to be very civil dialogue between the two of us. I like her and respect her. We just have very different visions and very different views.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great to catch up with County Executive Alsobrooks before this morning&rsquo;s Independence Day parade in Dundalk!<\/p>\n<p>What unites us as Marylanders and Americans is always greater than what divides us. &#127482;&#127480; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TnjixEmSec\">pic.twitter.com\/TnjixEmSec<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovLarryHogan\/status\/1808903582147604546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As an anti-Trump Republican, Hogan is trying to overcome the odds in deep-blue Maryland that Biden dominated by more than 30 points in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan said he was not familiar with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), the 39-year-old tapped as Trump&rsquo;s vice presidential nominee this week during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Hogan lauded Vance&rsquo;s Marine Corps service and his age, a refreshing change of pace from the &ldquo;two old guys running for president.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But he and I have different views on a lot of things,&rdquo; Hogan said.<\/p>\n<p>Vance has received intense scrutiny over disparaging remarks he made about Trump before being elected to the Senate in 2022, a campaign that the former president endorsed.<\/p>\n<p>Known then as the author of the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling book<em> Hillbilly Elegy<\/em>, Vance classified himself as a &ldquo;&rsquo;Never Trump&rsquo; guy&rdquo; and had no shortage of denigrating euphemisms before Trump took the Oval Office in 2017: &ldquo;idiot,&rdquo; &ldquo;America&rsquo;s Hitler,&rdquo; a &ldquo;cynical a**hole like Nixon,&rdquo; and &ldquo;unfit for our nation&rsquo;s highest office.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance has since said he was wrong about Trump and was won over during the former president&rsquo;s first term. The senator has pointed the finger at the Biden campaign&rsquo;s rhetoric for the assassination attempt on Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hogan said Vance&rsquo;s transformation was reminiscent of a broader Trump theme in the GOP, one that he has long criticized.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that&rsquo;s been not just particular to J.D. Vance, but an awful lot of people who seem to be changing their views and their positions,&rdquo; Hogan said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not one of them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1669325\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1669325\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hogan is urging both political parties to stop using divisive and toxic rhetoric following the assassination attempt on former President Trump. He believes that the current political climate is dangerous and that everyone needs to be cautious with their words. Hogan emphasized the need for both Democrats and Republicans to work towards bringing the country together. Despite facing a Democratic opponent in the Senate race, Hogan is focused on discussing important issues and maintaining a civil dialogue. As an anti-Trump Republican in a heavily Democratic state, Hogan is trying to overcome the odds. He praised Senator Vance&#8217;s military service and youthfulness but noted their differing views on many issues. Hogan criticized the trend of politicians changing their views to align with Trump&#8217;s beliefs, a trend he does not support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2297833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/larry-hogan-both-sides-lose-toxic-rhetoric.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35334,5864,4300,3634],"class_list":["post-2297832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-divisive-language","tag-hogan","tag-shooting","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/larry-hogan-both-sides-lose-toxic-rhetoric.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297832","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\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}