Fmr. Gov. Larry Hogan:
Well, I sure hope so.
I have been trying to do my part to steer the party away from Donald Trump. I think it would be a terrible mistake for the Republican Party to nominate Donald Trump, and I think it'd be terrible for the country for Donald Trump to be elected president again.
But, look, it's — the problem we have right now, about 50 percent of the likely Republican primary voters do not want Donald Trump, but they have got 11 choices of who else they might support. And many of them are struggling to get attention because all of our focus is on the Trump legal problems.
And I think we have got to find a way to narrow that field down, decide who the strongest candidates are, and then we have got to start giving them more attention. But with the current indictments and potential future indictments coming out, it's going to continue to be the thing that takes all of the oxygen out of the room.
And, unfortunately, that's hurting the Republican primary challengers. And if not helping Trump, it certainly isn't hurting him. In a general election, I think it hurts him terribly. It makes him a candidate that is unqualified, should be disqualified from being president. And I think it makes it impossible for him to win a general election.
But this is kind of a dream date scenario with the first case coming up in May, which is long after we're going to have selected a nominee. So it would be bad for the Republican challengers and probably good for the Democrats in the general election.
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