Larry Hogan Won’t Vote for Harris or Trump Amid Close Senate Race

Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said on Tuesday that he will not be voting in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as he faces a tight Senate race in the state.
“I’ve decided that neither one of them has earned my vote,” Hogan said, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
He made the revelation during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer after Blitzer played an ad from Hogan’s campaign featuring a split-ticket voter in Maryland.
The woman in the ad said she would vote for Harris for president and Hogan, who is running as an anti-Trump Republican, for Senate.
“As you’ve said, you won’t vote for Trump, right?” Blitzer asked Hogan.
“Yes,” Hogan replied.
“And in that ad, you seem to be promoting Kamala Harris as well,” Blitzer said.
“No, actually, this is a woman who was a former chairman of the Democratic Women’s Club in Montgomery County, and she’s splitting her ticket,” Hogan said.
He went on to note that split-ticket voters are a big part of his coalition in the state.
“In Maryland, I’ve got to win most of the Republicans, most of the independents, where we’re winning by 20 points, and about a third of the Democrats,” Hogan said. “And that’s how I was elected governor twice and became only the second Republican in 248 years to be reelected.”
Blitzer continued pressing Hogan on his vote for president, saying: “But you’re not going to vote for Trump—are you going to vote for Kamala Harris?”
“I’ve decided that neither one of them has earned my vote,” Hogan replied. “And I’ve never voted for anybody I didn’t really believe in.”
Hogan, a former two-term Maryland governor, made headlines when he rebuked Trump during his first presidential term.
When Trump said earlier this year that he would “like to see” Hogan win his Senate race, Hogan dismissed the former president’s support, saying he had no interest in his endorsement.
“I didn’t want to have it,” he told a CNN affiliate in June. “And I have no interest in it.”
Hogan is running against Democrat Angela Alsobrooks in an increasingly tight Senate race in a deep-blue state.
But he’s no stranger to uphill battles; according to ABC News, in 2014, he became only the second Republican to be elected governor of Maryland in half a century, and in 2018, he became the first Republican governor to be reelected since 1954.
On Tuesday, Hogan sought to appeal to moderate voters, telling Blitzer that he’s “been one of the most outspoken critics over the last eight years,” adding, “like most people, I’m ready for this election to be over with.”