After several months of toying with the idea of running for president under the No Labels banner, Larry Hogan announced a run for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat last week. The former governor has an opportunity to make this a real contest after decades of Republican candidates struggling to reach 40 percent of the vote while helping the party gain control of the Senate. Hogan, however, has a tight time frame to wage both a May primary fight and a November general election campaign and is in a narrow political lane.
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Hogan, who is enormously confident in his political acumen, must overcome constraints created by ego and ambition. Perhaps the biggest liability is turning off a political base of conservative voters to get mainstream media attention as he jockeyed for position as a No Labels candidate. It’s one…
