In Hogan’s telling, the Trump era could create a national springboard for the moderate governor’s brand of pragmatic politics. Hogan writes of early political defeats and a painful bankruptcy that erased millions of dollars in personal wealth. “In a 2024 matchup, I think there will be 10 or 12 or more people fighting in the same lane to carry on the mantle of Donald Trump,” Hogan said in an interview Monday. “For the first time, all alone in that hospital bed, I got scared,” Hogan wrote of his first chemo infusion. In the book, Hogan writes that he has been bracing for the president to send venom his way, but it has not arrived.

Source: Washington Post July 28, 2020 16:51 UTC