Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is not ruling out challenging President Donald Trump in the Republican primaries.
His comments came in an interview with CBS News.
Hogan is being encouraged by some anti-Trump conservative to go up against the president in the primaries, the network news noted.
"I was just sworn in a month ago for my second term … I've got a lot of work to do here in Maryland … I would say I'm being approached from a lot of different people and I guess the best way to put it is, I haven't thrown them out of my office.”
Hogan maintained Republicans will need to consider the impact on GOP office holders if Trump’s approval ratings continue to slip.
"The issue I'm concerned about is he has a very low re-elect number, I think in the 30s, high 30s, low 40s," Hogan said of Trump's poll numbers. "So the chance of him losing a general election are pretty good. I'm not saying he couldn't win but he's pretty weak in the general election."
But he conceded a primary challenge would be difficult.
"I don't know what it's going to look like down the road," he said. "Today it would be very difficult. Nobody has successfully challenged a sitting president in the same party in a primary since 1884. I know I'm the second Republican in the history of Maryland but I'm not sure, that's probably about the same odds I guess."
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