As he weighs a primary bid against President Trump, Hogan praises one of the president’s favorite punching bags: the media.
By Erin Cox Erin Cox Local reporter covering Maryland state politics Email Bio Follow March 25 at 9:31 PM Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who is weighing a primary challenge to President Trump, drew a sharp contrast with the president’s anti-media rhetoric Monday, telling a crowd of hundreds at a journalism awards banquet in downtown Washington that he respects reporters and their “noble profession.”
Hogan, a moderate who was easily reelected to a second term last year, called for civility in public discourse, emphasizing many of the same themes that helped make him a popular figure in a state dominated by Democrats. In his speech Monday, Hogan praised reporters and said they “represented one of America’s most important and all too often underappreciated professions.”
The Toner awards honor the late New York Times writer Robin Toner, the first woman to be a national political correspondent for the newspaper. She died of cancer, a disease that Hogan also has battled, in 2008. “The biggest crisis facing our nation isn’t a wall between Mexico and the United States,” he said, but a wall that divides discourse in America.
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