EXCLUSIVEMarjorie Taylor Greene, AOC take center stage in new GOP ad boosting Maryland centrist Senate candidate Larry Hogan who will combat 'divisiveness' in DC
Maryland's GOP Senate candidate Larry Hogan is out with a new $2 million ad set to hit airwaves on Wednesday that puts his centrist bonafides on display - without fear of angering the right wing of his party.
The ad's opening shot is a clip of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and the words 'divisiveness' and 'gridlock.' The ad then cuts to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
It highlights Hogan's support for abortion rights and his opposition to 'extreme Project 2025' - a Heritage Foundation policy plan that has become a favorite line of attack for Democrats and even Trump himself has denounced.
The blueprint includes ideas like working to ban abortion and transgender people from the military.
'We can't heal our divide by electing the same partisan politicians,' the ad says. 'We need independent leaders who will stand up for us and Maryland, bringing sanity to a broken system.'
Maryland 's GOP Senate candidate Larry Hogan is out with a new $2 million ad set to hit airwaves on Wednesday that puts his centrist bonafides on display without fear of angering the right wing of his party
'Larry Hogan cut taxes, tolls and fees every year. Larry Hogan made housing and health care more affordable. He supports restoring women's right to choose, everywhere, and will fight the extreme Project 2025,' the ad goes on.
'It's time we put people over politics,' Hogan says at the end, calling to mind a favorite slogan from House Democrats.
The ad, funded by both the Hogan campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Senate Republicans' campaign arm, will play on TV channels across Maryland.
Part of a dying breed of vocally anti-Trump Republicans, Hogan tells DailyMail.com in an interview Tuesday he's 'never really thought about parties.'
'I've always just tried to go out and meet people one-on-one and convince them that I was going to represent all the people in Maryland.'
Hogan served as governor of the state from 2015 to 2023. He was ranked third most popular governor in the country with an approval rating of nearly 70 percent in 2022 according to a Morning Consult poll. But his popularity had little down-ballot effect for Republicans as Maryland has become an increasingly blue state over the years.
Biden won it by 65 percent over Trump in 2020. And this year Democrat Angela Alsobrooks is leading Hogan in the Senate race 48 to 39 percent, according to a RealClearPolitics polling average.
Hogan pays little heed to polling, he says.
'The week of the election [in 2014] they said I was 12 points down. We won by five. So the only thing that matters is November.'
'I said I was an underdog, what I'm trying to do, it's never been done before, but I think we're gonna do it.'
