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A GOP governor has said that former President Donald Trump’s “influence” in the Republican Party “has diminishing” but added that “it’s just talking longer than it should”. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said on Sunday that conservatives are slowing pushing back against the former President, The Hill reports.
Hogan
reportedly told moderator Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Trump’s
“influence is diminishing” and that the Republican Party will slowly distance
itself from Mr Trump, according to The Hill. The Maryland governor has been a
longtime critic of Mr Trump.
“I’ve been
talking about this for years now, and I felt like I was on a lifeboat all by
myself. But now we need a bigger boat because more and more people are speaking
out every day,” Hogan said, according to The Hill. “I said Trump’s influence on
the party was going to diminish over time. It hasn’t happened rapidly, but it
has diminished dramatically.”
“It’s just
taking longer than it should,” he added.
Several
members of the Republican Party have criticized the former President over his
role in the January 6 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Cassidy
Hutchinson, a former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows accused
Trump of encouraging armed rioters to go to the U.S. Capitol and allegedly
ordered staffers to disable the metal detectors there to enable more of his
violent supporters to go in, saying “I don’t care if they are armed”.
Hogan said
Sunday that the diminishing influence of the former President could be seen in
several Republican candidates Trump has worked against who have prevailed in
their primary challenges, including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Rep. Nancy Mace
(S.C.), according to The Hill.
Hogan said
Americans need to move on from Trump.
“There are
an awful lot of people — I would call them the exhausted majority of Americans
who are frustrated with the far left and the far right — they want to see us go
in a different direction,” the moderate Republican told NBC, according to The
Hill. “I’ve seen nothing to dissuade me from thinking that there’s a growing
demand for exactly what we have done in Maryland over these last eight years.”