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Hogan and GOP cast his Senate candidacy as ‘a voice of common sense’

A nearly $1 million ad buy launches Wednesday. Half is paid for by the National Republican Senatorial Campaign, which recruited the former governor to the race.

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April 17, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Former governor Larry Hogan, running for the U.S. Senate, greets locals as he visits Little Italy in Baltimore. (Bill O'Leary for The Washington Post)
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Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan is launching a nearly $1 million television ad campaign Wednesday, half bankrolled by national Republicans eager to flip the deep-blue state’s open Senate seat red.

A month before primary voters determine whom he faces in November, Hogan’s early money is trying to build on the brand he established as a pragmatic, two-term Republican governor who had no choice but to work with state Democrats.