Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is still not ruling out a presidential run as a third-party candidate.
“However I can serve, I’m still trying to figure that out, but I’m not walking away,” Mr. Hogan, a Republican, said to Bloomberg.
“I don’t want to run a race and nibble around the edges,” he said. “If I thought there was a path to success to win the race, then I just said I wouldn’t shut the door to that opportunity.”
Mr. Hogan previously aired the possibility that he would run with the bipartisan political group No Labels in September after he declined to be on the ballot as a Republican. Mr. Hogan serves as the national co-chairman of No Labels, which is pushing for a third-party presidential candidate.
Last week, the group urged Democrats to not interfere with its work to get a third-party candidate after President Biden said that the group has a “democratic right to do it,” but warned it would “help the other guy.”
Mr. Hogan said in September that a third-party campaign would not take votes away from Mr. Biden and former President Donald Trump if he happens to be the GOP candidate.
“The current president has two different independent counsels investigating multiple different things, problems with his son,” Mr. Hogan said on CBS News. “We’ve got the former president, who is running this whole grievance effort, still debating the results of the last election and has four different indictments and potentially 90-some charges against them. I mean, if ever, there was a time to say, maybe we need to have a choice C, it might be 2024.”
In the new Bloomberg interview, he said that his primary focus right now is to get the Republican Party “back on track” after the GOP turmoil that caused the removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, from his position as House speaker.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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