Governor Larry Hogan

The message from voters was loud and clear: doubling down on the base is not enough.

Republicans ignored too many swing voters and failed to speak to the exhausted majority of Americans who are focused on affordability, the cost of everyday life, and whether leaders actually deliver on what they promise.

Successful politics is about addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division.

Our party needs a more hopeful, positive message that brings people in, focuses on common-sense solutions, and appeals beyond the base.

The toxic extremes of both parties have spent years driving Americans further apart. Those elected this week have a responsibility to serve everyone, including the people who voted against them.

This morning, I’ll join Governor @TerryMcAuliffe and Robert Costa of @CBSNews at the @RonaldReagan Presidential Foundation and Institute to discuss the election and what comes next. We’ve both governed across party lines, and we know it’s possible to find common ground without surrendering your principles.

Join the Reagan Institute and the Hogan Institute at @WashColl at 10 a.m. Watch live at youtube.com/watch?v=5WnEsm…

Americans aren’t tired of freedom and democracy. They haven’t given up on the values that make our nation great. They’re tired of failed leadership and politicians who put their own interests ahead of the country.

President Reagan understood that successful leadership was about addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division. That lesson feels especially relevant today.

Tomorrow, I’ll join Governor @TerryMcAuliffe at the @RonaldReagan Presidential Foundation and Institute for the Common Ground Forum, in partnership with the Hogan Institute at @WashColl. Our discussion will be moderated by @CostaReports of @CBSNews and will focus on what comes next after the campaigning ends: how leaders govern, build coalitions, find common ground, and still stand by their principles.

Question 3 moves us backwards. It would give partisan mapmakers more freedom to divide our communities, combine distant areas, and manipulate district boundaries to produce the election results they want.

In short, it lets politicians pick their voters, rather than citizens picking their representatives.

I’ve long been opposed to gerrymandering, wherever it was happening and whoever was doing it. Thankfully, this time, the people of Maryland have the chance to make their voices heard.

Politicians should not be rewarded with the power to erase the constitutional requirements they violated.

And we shouldn’t take Maryland back to the days when our congressional maps were held up as some of the worst, most gerrymandered in America.

If politicians won’t do the right thing, Maryland voters should do it for them. Vote against Question 3. baltimoresun.com/2026/10/29/lar…

For years, Maryland was considered the poster child for extreme partisan gerrymandering in the nation. Our congressional districts were so unfair, twisted, and distorted that they became a punchline on every list of the worst-drawn maps in America.

We appointed an independent, non-partisan redistricting commission that held hearings all across the state and heard the testimony of thousands of Marylanders. The legislature's extreme partisan maps were thrown out by the courts, and the legislature was ordered to redraw fairer maps. These are the ones we currently use today.

Our fair maps took eight years to win in Maryland, and the effort received bipartisan praise across the country.

Now, to ensure that their partisan, illegal maps can never be thrown out again, the monopoly in Annapolis is attempting to rewrite our state Constitution to clear the way for the same kind of maps that the courts already said violated the law.

Let me be clear, the way I've been clear about this for decades: partisan gerrymandering is a cancer on our democracy, and it's wrong no matter who does it.

Marylanders, regardless of party, should say NO to extreme partisan gerrymandering. NO to politics as usual. NO to being the worst in America. We are better than this.

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