Former Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to file on the last day possible as a Republican candidate to represent Maryland in the U.S. Senate caught much of the political establishment off-guard. This is likely because the 67-year-old had pledged repeatedly that he had absolutely no intention of doing so. But politicians being politicians, there ways always a Senate run possibility, despite his months of flirting with a run for president as a third-party candidate and walking away because, as he wrote in a New York Times op-ed, he didn’t want to “risk being part of another multicar pileup that could potentially help Mr. Trump recapture the nomination.” He’s got too much going for him not to consider it.
