 Governor Hogan addressed the ongoing negotiations on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, stating he’s “completely fed up with the divisiveness and dysfunction in Washington and the fact that they don’t seem to ever get anything done.”
According to Governor Hogan, “Republicans and Democrats have been saying they’re going to do this for decades. We finally are on the goal line and the House is playing games and attempting to force other things into the discussion, the extra $3.5 trillion…It’s not just a failure of leadership in the House. If the President really wanted to get this done, he would tell the leaders of the House to pass his bipartisan infrastructure deal.”
A column from Jason Riley in The Wall Street Journal highlights Governor Hogan’s success appealing to black Marylanders as proof that Republicans can win these voters “without making overt racial appeals.”
In 2018, Governor Hogan “won 28% of the black vote, which was double the amount he’d won four years earlier…all the more impressive because his opponent not only was black but also a former head of the NAACP, and Democrats enjoyed a blue wave nationally that year.” These black voters were won over by Governor Hogan’s “push to lower taxes and his decision to send federal troops to Baltimore during the 2015 riots.” Recent polling shows nearly 80% of black Marylanders approve of Governor Hogan’s job performance.
While Republicans nationally don’t win more black voters because “GOP candidates rarely seek them out,” Governor Hogan has already proven that Republicans can change this by showing up and focusing on “safe neighborhoods and low tax rates.”
Governor Hogan wrote an op-ed in USA Today calling on Congress to drop the “arcane” legislative debates and just get the bipartisan infrastructure bill done.
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