Today on Face The Nation, Governor Hogan highlighted his commitment to being an independent swing vote in the United States Senate–including his plan to sponsor initiatives to codify Roe and protect access to IVF. He expressed his opposition to efforts by Donald Trump and Angela Alsobrooks to abolish the filibuster, and addressed Trump’s toxic and divisive rhetoric.
On The Need for Bipartisan Leadership in Washington: “I got in this race when the bipartisan deal fell apart to secure the border, supply support and funding for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. And people voted against it because they didn’t want to give a bipartisan win. My whole emphasis has been about how we find consensus, how we find common ground for the common good. And that’s what I based my whole career on. And so I’m hoping that the voters will actually want that kind of leadership in Washington. If they decide just another partisan, you know, rubber-stamp politician and they just want to vote based on red or blue, I’m not going to be in the Senate. But if they want to change Washington, I think I’m exactly the kind of person that can make a difference.”
On Red vs. Blue and Country Over Party: “It’s not just about red versus blue, which is what my opponent wants it to be about. I’m concerned about the red, white, and blue, and I’m willing to put country over party, and I’m hoping that the voters will be willing to do the same thing.”
On Opposing Trump and Alsobrooks’s Efforts to Abolish the Filibuster: “I don’t agree with both my opponent and Donald Trump about trying to do away with the filibuster. … I think we need to find buy-in and bipartisan cooperation, just as I did in a state that has a 70 percent Democratic legislature, but we did things like cut taxes and lower the cost of healthcare and to pass a criminal justice reform act. We’ve got to find a way to get people in Washington to stop just name-calling, stop trying to jam things through on the left or the right. And the filibuster allows, it requires bipartisan cooperation and consensus, and that’s exactly what I think we desperately need in Washington.”
On Codifying Roe and Protecting Access to IVF: “Look, I’m very supportive of women’s right to make those decisions, not to come between a woman and her doctor. I’m going to sponsor a bill on protecting Roe. I’m going to sponsor a bill on IVF. I ran for governor promising that I would not change, that I would not do anything to limit access to abortion. I kept that promise for eight years, and I’m now promising them again that I’m going to fight for that when I’m in the United States Senate.”
On President Trump Calling Vice President Harris ‘Mentally Impaired’: “I think all of that is outrageous and unacceptable, and I’ve already called him out when he had the one interview where he was questioning her racial identity, and now he’s questioning her mental competence. And I think that’s insulting not only to the vice president, but to people that actually do have mental disabilities.”
