Hogan says he won’t run for president in 2024

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican who has been an outspoken critic of former President Trump, has announced that he will not run for president in 2024 after “serious consideration.”

“I’ve seriously thought about it, I’ve been talking to people all over the place and talking to my family,” Hogan told CBS News. “And it was not an easy decision. But I have decided that I will not run as a Republican for President.”

The announcement by Hogan, who has been publicly considering his bid for the White House, comes after spending considerable time over the past few months touring the states that put forward nominations in the first Republican primaries.

Hogan served two terms as governor of traditionally blue state Maryland and stepped down this year after his term was limited. He refused to endorse Dan Cox, the Trump-backed Republican who won the gubernatorial primary and succeeded Hogan in the gubernatorial primary. Instead, he stood by as the current governor of Maryland, Wes Moore (D), marched to victory in the general election.

Hogan said it wasn’t the idea of ​​running against Trump that kept him from starting the campaign.

“It didn’t scare me too much,” Hogan said. “You’re right. It would be a tough race. And he’s very tough. But, you know, I beat life-threatening cancer. So Trump calling me names on Twitter didn’t scare me that much.”

Instead, he argued that he did not run to give other “single-digit” candidates a chance to challenge leaders like Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“I didn’t want a bunch of people fighting,” Hogan said. “Right now you have Trump and DeSantis at the top of the field, they are eating all the oxygen, getting all the attention. And then all the rest of us are in single digits, and the more of them you have, the less chance you have of anyone going up.”

Ultimately, Hogan said of the presidency that he “doesn’t need this job.”

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“I didn’t need this job,” Hogan said. “I didn’t need to run for another office. It was really, I considered it because I thought it was a public service and maybe I could make a difference.”

Hogan’s name was considered as a possible candidate for the presidency as his second term drew to a close. Over the past few years, he has raised about $6 million mulling a White House election, a person familiar with the former governor’s fundraising told The Hill.

Updated at 9:17

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