MARYLAND: "Dan Cox, the Trump-backed candidate who won the GOP nomination for Maryland’s governor on Tuesday, secured his primary election victory through “collusion between Trump and the Democrats,” according to Gov. Larry Hogan. Hogan, a centrist Republican, lamented Cox’s victory as a “win for the Democrats,” arguing the Left threw its support behind the state delegate in the primary election because he was viewed as the Republican less likely to beat the Democratic nominee in November. Cox’s win also handed a victory to former President Donald Trump in a primary contest that became a proxy war with Hogan, who is retiring as governor after this term and is contemplating a 2024 presidential run.
“It was kind of unprecedented collusion between the Democratic Governors Association and Donald Trump,” Hogan said on ABC’s This Week. “It’s a big loss for the Republican Party, and we have no chance of saving that governor seat. We actually had a chance if they hadn’t gotten together and done that.” After Cox's primary victory, Hogan said he would not support the Republican nominee, whom he called a "QAnon whack job," in the November election. Trump and Cox "were promoting a conspiracy theory-believing kind of nut job. And DGA I think spent about $3 million,” Hogan said. “The guy only spent $100,000 on his campaign.”
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