{"id":4078,"date":"2024-02-10T01:07:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T01:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/larry-hogan-launches-republican-senate-bid-after-saying-he-lacks-burning-desire-to-be-a-senator\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T01:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T01:07:46","slug":"larry-hogan-launches-republican-senate-bid-after-saying-he-lacks-burning-desire-to-be-a-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/larry-hogan-launches-republican-senate-bid-after-saying-he-lacks-burning-desire-to-be-a-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Hogan launches Republican Senate bid after saying he lacks \u2018burning desire to be a senator\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Maryland governor who Republicans hope can win in blue state told podcast last year sitting in Senate would be \u2018really frustrating\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Larry Hogan, the former Republican governor of Maryland who on Friday announced a surprise US Senate run, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/governor-larry-hogan-on-why-he-didnt-run-and-whatll\/id1687242352?i=1000614118083\">told an interviewer last year<\/a> he did not \u201chave a burning desire to be a senator\u201d, would find sitting in the Senate \u201creally frustrating\u201d, thought being a senator was \u201cnot where my skill set lies\u201d, and said that though he could win a seat, \u201cthe problem was I would win and I would have to go be a senator\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan made the stark remarks, which may now come to haunt him, in an interview last May with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johannamaska.com\/podcasts\">Johanna Maska<\/a>, host of the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/press-advance-with-johanna-maska\/id1687242352\">Press Advance podcast<\/a> and a former White House aide to Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/09\/larry-hogan-republican-maryland-launches-senate-bid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Maryland governor who Republicans hope can win in blue state told podcast last year sitting in Senate would be \u2018really frustrating\u2019 Larry Hogan, the former Republican governor of Maryland who on Friday announced a surprise US Senate run, told an interviewer last year he did not \u201chave a burning desire to be a senator\u201d, would &#8230; <a title=\"Larry Hogan launches Republican Senate bid after saying he lacks \u2018burning desire to be a senator\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/larry-hogan-launches-republican-senate-bid-after-saying-he-lacks-burning-desire-to-be-a-senator\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Larry Hogan launches Republican Senate bid after saying he lacks \u2018burning desire to be a senator\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}