{"id":2655054,"date":"2026-09-05T06:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andy-harris-looks-to-larry-hogan-to-survive-maryland-redistricting-battle\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:47:21","slug":"andy-harris-looks-to-larry-hogan-to-survive-maryland-redistricting-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andy-harris-looks-to-larry-hogan-to-survive-maryland-redistricting-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Harris looks to Larry Hogan to survive Maryland redistricting 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\">22<\/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%2Fandy-harris-looks-to-larry-hogan-to-survive-maryland-redistricting-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=2655054&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>Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland, and Maryland Democrats are moving closer to removing the state&#8217;s only Republican House member, Andy Harris, amid ongoing redistricting battles.Maryland&#8217;s Supreme court recently ruled that a redistricting amendment on the ballot is misleading and violates due process, though it allowed the question to stay after a court revision of its wording. harris, seeking to protect his seat, plans to involve Larry Hogan, the former Republican governor, to oppose the ballot measure, which aims to implement redistricting changes favoring Democrats in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan has voiced strong opposition to the redistricting effort, criticizing it as political gerrymandering aimed at marginalizing Republicans rather than promoting fairness. He has called for Marylanders to reject partisan gerrymandering altogether. Meanwhile, Moore emphasizes that the redistricting efforts are about democracy and protecting voting rights from President Trump\u2019s influence, as he campaigns for reelection and potentially considers a 2028 presidential run. <\/p>\n<p>the court&#8217;s decision stems from concerns that the ballot question&#8217;s language is deceptive, despite the majority justices modifying it to appear less misleading.The legal and political battle continues, with Harris suggesting that defeating Question 3 on the ballot may be the only way to prevent Maryland from becoming a fully Democratic U.S.House delegation.the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-debates-whether-to-conscript-clergy-as-russia-war-rages\/\" title=\"Ukraine considers drafting clergy amid ongoing conflict with Russia\">issue reflects broader tensions<\/a> over redistricting, partisan control, and the integrity of the electoral process in Maryland.  <\/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<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/wes-moore\/\">Wes Moore<\/a> (D-MD) and Maryland Democrats are inching closer to ousting the state\u2019s lone House Republican after notching a win at the state Supreme Court to keep a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4701762\/wes-moore-redistricting-setback-larry-hogan-judge\/\">redistricting question<\/a> on the ballot for the November elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running out of options to protect his congressional seat from being redrawn to favor Democrats in 2028, Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/rep-andy-harris\/\">Andy Harris<\/a> (R-MD) says it\u2019s time for Moore\u2019s predecessor to lend a lifeline. The eight-term lawmaker plans to call upon Larry Hogan, the former two-term centrist Republican governor who left office in 2023 with high bipartisan approval ratings, to get more involved.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4714454\/maryland-only-house-republican-looks-to-larry-hogan-to-help-survive-redistricting\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Maryland\u2019s only House Republican looks to Larry Hogan to help survive redistricting<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4714902\/pennsylvania-green-party-candidate-booted-from-ballot-gop-spoiler\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Pennsylvania court boots Green Party candidate from ballot for being GOP \u2018spoiler candidate\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4714796\/nevada-democratic-election-chief-seven-doj-subpoenas\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Nevada Democratic election chief says Trump administration hit his office with seven DOJ subpoenas<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll be contacting the former governor,\u201d Harris told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> Friday in a phone interview. \u201cI would hope that he would take a leading position to try to defeat this referendum, because it will take some outside influences to overcome the bias that the Democrat-controlled state Supreme Court put in that wording.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Maryland Supreme Court\u2019s Thursday <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcourts.gov\/data\/opinions\/coa\/2026\/22a26pc.pdf?_gl=1*1mhu47k*_ga*NjcwOTU4MzkuMTc3NDQ2NjgwNw..*_ga_6TNWH2LH1Z*czE3ODg0NzM0NTIkbzUwJGcwJHQxNzg4NDczNDUyJGo2MCRsMCRoMA..\">ruling<\/a> agreed with lower-court judges that the ballot question\u2019s wording, which is a constitutional\u00a0redistricting\u00a0amendment to pave the way for Democrats to net one seat in 2028, \u201cis misleading and therefore violates due process requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, the majority justices\u2019 opinion determined they would allow the question after revising the language themselves, a decision that the dissenting justices said \u201cremains misleading.\u201d The court consists of five Republican-appointed justices \u2014 all of them by Hogan \u2014 and two Democratic-appointed justices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe problem is that the wording is very deceptive,\u201d said Harris, who, as Freedom Caucus chair, is aligned on the other side of Republican Party as the centrist Hogan. \u201cIf a voter just depends upon what they read at the polling booth or on their absentee ballot, they\u2019re going to be deceived into thinking this is not about creating extreme partisan gerrymandering.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hogan has largely taken a back seat to politics and current events since losing his 2024 Senate bid to now-Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD). But the anti-Trump Republican does, on occasion, still voice his opinion on state matters, particularly when he disagrees with Maryland\u2019s elected leaders. That includes the Democratic-led redistricting effort, although his involvement has so far been confined to an op-ed accusing Moore and state Democrats of \u201cpure hypocrisy\u201d for embracing the very gerrymandering mindset they\u2019ve condemned Republicans for in other states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis redistricting is not about election reform. It isn\u2019t about fairness, and it isn\u2019t about righting a past wrong,\u201d Hogan <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2026\/08\/02\/larry-hogan-maryland-redistricting\/\">wrote<\/a> for the <em>Baltimore Sun<\/em> in August, prior to state Democrats passing a measure during a special session by the Maryland General Assembly to add the ballot question. \u201cIt is an attempt by the political monopoly in Annapolis to change the law so they can realize their goal of pushing the last Republican member of Congress out of office. Not by convincing voters to support a Democratic candidate, but by packing more Democrats into a district that tends to vote Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hogan and Harris spoke during the special session about Democrats\u2019 redistricting effort, according to a source familiar with the matter. In a social media post Friday reacting to the Maryland Supreme Court ruling, Hogan <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovLarryHogan\/status\/2096025351365464457?s=20\">reiterated his opposition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMarylanders, regardless of party, should say NO to extreme partisan gerrymandering,\u201d Hogan posted. \u201cNO to politics as usual. NO to being the worst in America. We are better than this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/30bcCtNhqs\"><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">From l-r: Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, leaves the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, and Republican Senate candidate former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan interacts with supporters during an election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photos\/Daniel Kucin Jr.\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/09\/localimages\/image-collage-04230wijr-1788551145071-e1788555606970.jpg?1788541227&#038;w=696&#8243; &#8220;https:><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From l-r: Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, leaves the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, and Republican Senate candidate former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan interacts with supporters during an election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photos\/Daniel Kucin Jr.\/J. Scott Applewhite) <br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moore, who\u2019s made remaking the Maryland maps a pillar of his reelection campaign, is a possible 2028 White House candidate. Other possible Democratic presidential contenders, such as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), were successful in their counter-redistricting pursuits. Moore lauded the court decision on what he describes as an endeavor to protect democracy from President Donald Trump, who\u2019s urged GOP-led states to conduct mid-cycle redistricting in the party\u2019s favor.   <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur democracy should not be run by Donald Trump, and our democracy should not be run by party bosses,\u201d Moore told reporters Friday. \u201cOur democracy should be run by the people, and that the people should be the ones to have the final say as to how our democracy and how our freedoms are going to be protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4641423\/maryland-redistricting-action-not-way-wes-moore-wanted\/\">MARYLAND MAY FINALLY SEE REDISTRICTING ACTION \u2014 JUST NOT THE WAY WES MOORE WANTED<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris and state Republicans could still present legal challenges to a new map next year once Democrats redraw it, if voters in November approve the state constitutional amendment. But Harris suggested the only possible avenue to preventing an 8-0 all-Democratic U.S. House delegation could be defeating what\u2019s known as Question 3 on the ballot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnfortunately, the relatively biased position that the state Supreme Court took on this issue means that they might take the same biased position on a challenge to an extremely partisan, gerrymandered map,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moore, Maryland Dems near ousting GOP after court win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2655055,"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\/2026\/09\/image-collage-04230wijr-1788551145071-e1788555606970.jpg?1788541227&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[41099,39436,52689,32838,16985],"class_list":["post-2655054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-andy-harris","tag-larry-hogan","tag-maryland-politics","tag-political-battle","tag-redistricting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-collage-04230wijr-1788551145071-e1788555606970.jpg?1788541227&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655054","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=2655054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655058,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655054\/revisions\/2655058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}