While the dust isn’t quite settled from Maryland’s primary election, at least one outcome is abundantly clear: Gov. Larry Hogan, Maryland’s two-term Republican governor and an aspiring presidential candidate who continues to poll exceptionally well in his home state, just got thoroughly repudiated by voters from his own party.
In the governor’s race, they rejected Hogan’s hand-picked successor, former Commerce Secretary Kelly Schulz, in favor of Dan Cox, the Donald Trump-backed, one-term delegate from Frederick County who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection. GOP voters also gave the nod to Michael Peroutka as their nominee to be Maryland’s next attorney general, demonstrating a taste for right-wing extremism and conspiracy theories beyond the state’s top spot.
It’s surely left Harford County Executive Barry Glassman, the former state senator and uncontested Republican candidate for comptroller, in an awkward position: Campaign this summer with the two fanatics seeking statewide office? Or stick to his moderate, pragmatic brand, which his party just renounced?
