Republican yells at Raw Story when asked about clash between ex-Gov Larry Hogan and Trump

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hogan has drawn ire from former President Donald Trump's campaign after he said Americans should respect the guilty verdict against the former president.

But one lawmaker is calling any hints of a feud between Hogan and Trump fake news, despite the fact that Trump's allies have been openly attacking Hogan for days.

Among the critics have been the former president's own daughter in law.

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"He doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican Party at this point and, quite frankly, anybody in America," Lara Trump said on CNN.

“I think it’s ridiculous and I think anybody who’s not speaking up in the face of really something that should never again have seen the light of day at trial, that would never have been brought against any other person aside from Donald Trump, doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone,” she said.

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Yet, when Raw Story pressed the only Republican in the Maryland delegation about the intra-party feud, he delivered a strong response.

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) yelled when Raw Story mentioned the Trump team going after Hogan. "Trump did not go after Hogan!"

Raw Story explained again, "It was Lara Trump!"

"That's bulls--t!" Harris told Raw Story.

He alleged the story was "fake news." Ultimately, he proclaimed, the Republican Party and Lara Trump don't speak for Donald Trump.

However, it wasn't just Lara Trump who bashed Hogan, as Trump adviser Chris LaCivita called Hogan's comments campaign ending.

The conservativeWashington Times has also revealed how "miffed" Senate Republicans were by Hogan's comments.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who is under consideration for Trump's vice presidential running mate, called Hogan's comments a "huge mistake" because GOP voters believe the charges against Trump are political.

“Larry’s running in a blue state. He obviously is going to run a different campaign than I would run or other folks run,” Vance told the Times. “But look, when he says things that alienate the majority of Republicans and the gross majority of Republicans, I think it’s totally reasonable to criticize him. I still hope he wins.”

Vance also said it was politically foolish.

“I don’t know what person in the state of Maryland is open to voting for Larry Hogan but is really going to be persuaded because he endorsed what I think is frankly a sham prosecution,” he said. “I don’t think anybody. I think a lot of Republicans are going to be turned off by that.”

Montana Republican Steve Daines implied Hogan was only taking the position for political reasons to get elected.

“President Trump has his race to run,” Daines told the Times. “Larry Hogan has his race to run.”

Maryland colleague Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) told Raw Story that he remembered telling Hogan he would support him in a presidential run against Trump.

"But look, Trump has turned the party of President Lincoln into a cult of authoritarian personality," Raskin explained. "And Hogan should have nothing to do with them, but if he were to be elected as a Republican, which is how he's running of course, then he'd be another brick in the wall of GOP support for the MAGA leadership."

Raskin told Raw Story that the Republican Party now demands "absolute conformity and obedience to the cult of Trump. And that's why they had to smack him down after making the very simple and uncontroversial point that people should respect the law. And Hogan has gone quiet since then."

"If he really wants to take on Trump, he should be saying, 'There's no reason he should be leading the Republican Party. And that the Republican Party should be working to remove a convicted felon as their perspective nominee,'" Raskin proposed.

Rep. Glenn Ivy, another Maryland Democrat, said that Hogan is trying to use this kind of strategy to pivot to the center after winning a Republican primary.

"The problem he's got, though, is he really can't do it at this point," Ivy told Raw Story.

"He's chosen to be on that team," he added of Hogan and the GOP. "That team is dominated by Donald Trump. And all the chaos that goes with that — he's stuck with it.

Hogan will face Democrat Angela Alsobrooks in November.

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