{"id":2321291,"date":"2024-08-08T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hogan-a-centrist-republican-says-walz-is-no-centrist-democrat-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:19:07","slug":"hogan-a-centrist-republican-says-walz-is-no-centrist-democrat-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hogan-a-centrist-republican-says-walz-is-no-centrist-democrat-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogan, a centrist Republican, says Walz is no centrist Democrat &#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\">26<\/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-a-centrist-republican-says-walz-is-no-centrist-democrat-washington-examiner%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=2321291&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>In a recent interview with the Washington Examiner,\u200d former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a centrist Republican, shared his views \u200bon Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has been named\u2064 as the\u200c running mate of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. \u2064Hogan praised Walz&#8217;s personality and\u200c ability to connect \u2062with people, calling him a\u2063 &#8220;down-to-earth guy.&#8221; However,\u200d he firmly stated that they differ significantly on policy issues, labeling \u200cWalz as \u200dnot \u200ba \u200dcentrist.<\/p>\n<p>While Hogan refrained from using the \u2063term &#8220;radical&#8221; to describe Walz, a label that some Republicans have\u200b adopted, he emphasized the importance of focusing on specific\u200b issues rather than\u200c resorting\u2064 to labels. Walz is perceived as\u200c a crucial figure in energizing the Democratic \u200cParty \u2062following a leadership shake-up, aiming to attract Midwestern\u2064 voters in competitive \u2063states.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan acknowledged that Walz has moved\u2063 leftward since becoming governor, but expressed\u200c that Walz&#8217;s liberalism may be more pronounced \u200cthan\u2063 his \u200cpublic \u2064image suggests. Hogan, who does not \u2063plan to support either \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-polls-show-hobbled-biden-limping-into-sotu-trailing-trump-in-rematch\/\" title=\"Nolte: Polls Show Hobbled Biden Limping Into SOTU, Trailing Trump in Rematch\">major party candidate<\/a> \u2063in the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-offers-dr-rachel-levine-as-example-of-radical-agenda-riding-bidens-coattails\/\" title=\"Sen. Rand Paul Offers Dr. Rachel Levine As Example Of Radical Agenda Riding Biden\u2019s Coattails\">upcoming presidential election<\/a>, is currently campaigning against Democratic nominee Angela Alsobrooks, which could impact control \u2062of the Senate. Alsobrooks\u2062 has commended Walz for his dedication\u200c and values, highlighting his\u200d background as a military veteran \u2063and former public\u2063 school teacher.  <\/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\">Larry Hogan, a centrist Republican, says Tim Walz is no centrist Democrat<\/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_1725534\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash; <\/strong>Larry Hogan, the former two-term <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3111239\/larry-hogan-kamala-harris-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"centrist governor\">centrist governor<\/a> trying to flip a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3089508\/maryland-democrats-dig-in-effort-rebrand-hogan-trumps-candidate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Maryland Senate seat\">Maryland Senate seat<\/a> red for the first time in four decades, is willing to extend personal accolades to Democratic vice presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3111815\/what-does-walz-bring-to-the-table\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tim Walz\">Tim Walz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But not when it comes to the policies of Walz, a red-district-Minnesota-congressman-turned-progressive-governor.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a down-to-earth guy who connects well with people and seems like a regular guy,&rdquo; Hogan told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> during a Thursday campaign stop. &ldquo;Plain spoken, which some people would say I&rsquo;m a lot like that. But we&rsquo;re completely different on policy. He&rsquo;s not a centrist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&rsquo;t mean, however, that he agrees with the &ldquo;radical&rdquo; label Republicans have tacked on to Walz since Vice President Kamala Harris announced him as her running mate this week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know that I would put that kind of a label on anyone or on him,&rdquo; Hogan said. &ldquo;I think we ought to just focus on the issues and talk about [how] we feel this way and he feels that way, and he&rsquo;s wrong on this issue or that issue. I wouldn&rsquo;t label him a radical.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Walz has given Democrats another dose of enthusiasm in the wake of the shake-up at the top of the party&rsquo;s ticket. The Harris campaign envisions him as an effective counterprogram to former President Donald Trump&rsquo;s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who can win over Midwesterners and blue-collar voters in battleground states such as Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Walz represented a swing House district in southern Minnesota for 12 years that featured a centrist voting record prior to taking a more leftward tilt when elected governor in 2018 and reelected in 2022. Hailed by progressives for his record governing the North Star State, Walz has staked out liberal stances on issues such as expanding rights and benefits to undocumented immigrants and acting as a &ldquo;trans refuge&rdquo; for gender-affirming care, including with children.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s more liberal than he comes across,&rdquo; Hogan said.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the announcement of Walz, Hogan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3111239\/larry-hogan-kamala-harris-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told the Washington Examiner\">told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a>  this week that Harris was too progressive for him to support at the ballot box but found praise for some of the reported vice presidential contenders at the time, including Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA). A vehement Trump critic, Hogan will vote for neither <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corrupt-media-have-created-a-hilarious-problem-for-themselves-in-time-for-trumps-2024-campaign\/\" title=\"Corrupt Media Have Created A Hilarious Problem For Themselves In Time For Trump\u2019s 2024 Campaign\">major party presidential candidate<\/a> and instead plans to cast a &ldquo;symbolic&rdquo; vote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, left, speaks during the Hogan for Maryland Primary Night Victory Party on May 14, 2024, in Annapolis, Maryland, and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), right, the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, is pictured at a campaign rally on Aug. 6, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photos\/Daniel Kucin Jr.\/Matt Rourke)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hogan is running against Democratic nominee and Prince George&rsquo;s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks in a competitive race that could determine control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Alsobrooks, a close ally to Harris who has appeared with the vice president on the campaign trail, hailed Walz joining the ticket. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a decent man &mdash; a military veteran and former public school teacher &mdash; whose north star has always been the people he serves,&rdquo; Alsobrooks said. &ldquo;His commitment to our freedoms and to our country is unshakable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hogan, Maryland&rsquo;s governor from 2015-2023, for years crossed paths with Walz on policy issues as the former chairman of the National Governors Association. Where the two diverged the most, Hogan suggested, was their handling of riots over racial justice.<\/p>\n<p>Three months into the job in 2015, Hogan faced riots in Baltimore after a 25-year-old black man, Freddie Gray, sustained a fatal spinal cord injury while in the custody of city police. Riots broke out after weeks of tense protests, prompting Hogan that same day to declare a state of emergency and deploy 2,000 Maryland National Guard troops across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Walz&rsquo;s delayed response to the Black Lives Matter riots that engulfed Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd has received renewed scrutiny since being tapped by Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign has seized on Walz for having &ldquo;allowed Minneapolis to burn&rdquo; by not activating the National Guard sooner. Walz signed an executive order authorizing troops and sent a few hundred of them the day after violence first broke out, but they were tasked with protecting certain buildings and first responders rather than responding to the epicenter of the rioting. Additional troops were authorized over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walz later called Minneapolis&rsquo;s response an &ldquo;abject failure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was sort of the tale of two cities,&rdquo; Hogan said. &ldquo;We had the best response in the country, and I think, frankly, they had the worst.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><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_1725534\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1725534\"}});<\/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>Larry Hogan, a centrist Republican and former two-term governor, is attempting to turn a Maryland Senate seat red for the first time in 40 years. While he acknowledges Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz as a personable individual who connects well with people, he asserts that Walz does not embody centrist values. &#8220;He\u2019s an approachable guy who communicates plainly, which some might say I do too. However, our policy views are completely different; he\u2019s not a centrist,&#8221; Hogan stated during a campaign event with the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this disagreement on policies, Hogan refrains from endorsing the &#8220;radical&#8221; label that some Republicans have applied to Walz since his selection as Kamala Harris&#8217;s running mate was announced. &#8220;I wouldn\u2019t label anyone that way,&#8221; Hogan remarked. He believes discussions should focus on specific issues rather than labels.<\/p>\n<p>Walz has energized Democrats following changes at the top of their ticket and is seen by Harris&#8217;s campaign as someone who can appeal to Midwesterners and blue-collar voters in key battleground states like Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan. Having represented a swing district in southern Minnesota for 12 years before becoming more progressive as governor since 2018, Walz has gained praise from progressives for his liberal policies on issues such as immigrant rights and gender-affirming care.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan previously expressed that he finds Harris too progressive to support but had positive remarks about other potential vice presidential candidates like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. As an outspoken critic of Trump, Hogan plans to cast a symbolic vote rather than support either major party candidate.<\/p>\n<p>In his race against Democratic nominee Angela Alsobrooks\u2014who is closely aligned with Harris\u2014Hogan highlighted their differing approaches to handling civil unrest related to racial justice issues. He pointed out how his administration effectively managed riots in Baltimore following Freddie Gray&#8217;s death while criticizing Walz&#8217;s delayed response during the Black Lives Matter protests in Minneapolis after George Floyd&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, while acknowledging personal respect for Walz\u2019s character and background\u2014a military veteran and former teacher\u2014Hogan emphasizes significant policy differences between them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2321292,"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\/08\/Larry-Hogan-Tim-Walz.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[37564,37563,5864,27318,32076],"class_list":["post-2321291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-centrist-democrat","tag-centrist-republican","tag-hogan","tag-walz","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Larry-Hogan-Tim-Walz.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321291","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=2321291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}