Fox News’ Brit Hume has slammed Lara Trump after she blasted a Republican Senate candidate for not being loyal to her father-in-law Donald Trump.
The Republican National Committee co-chair went after former Maryland Republican Governor and Senate candidate Larry Hogan for his response to the Trump hush money verdict.
But Hume, who is the network’s chief political analyst, called Republicans going after one of their own candidates ‘political malpractice.’
After Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records by a New York jury, Hogan wrote on X: ‘Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process.’
‘At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders—regardless of party—must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship,’ he went on. ‘We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law.’
Fox News’ Brit Hume called criticism from Lara Trump of Larry Hogan for his response to the Trump verdict ‘political malpractice.’ Hogan is running as a Republican for the Senate
Lara Trump and members of the Trump campaign did not take kindly to his response.
When asked about his post during an appearance on CNN, Lara Trump said she did not support it and even suggested the party is willing to pull support from a GOP candidate who could help the party flip the Senate for Republicans.
‘He doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican party at this point, and quite frankly anybody in America if that’s the way you feel,’ she said.
‘We of course want to win as a party but that is a shame and I think he should have thought long and hard before he said that publicly,’ she continued when pressed over whether it was worth conceding a seat to Democrats.
Brit Hume said on Fox News that the ‘Lara Trumps of the world’ should be telling Hogan to do whatever he needs to get elected. ‘That’s how politics is played by smart people,’ Hume said
‘Maryland is a very blue state,’ said Hume. ‘And Larry Hogan, who remained popular as a Republican governor and remains that way to this day, is giving the Republican party the best chance it’s had in a long time to elect a Republican to the Senate.’
‘The Lara Trumps of the world ought to be saying ‘please Mr. Hogan, please Governor Hogan, you do whatever you have to do to get elected, and some of the things you say and you believe in don’t agree with what I think, that’s OK, do what you have to do,” Hume said.
Hume went on ‘that’s how politics is played by smart people.’
He warned the Trump team could be repeating the same mistake it made in 2020 when the ex-president ‘gummed up the works’ in Georgia, and Republicans lost the Senate seat there.
Lara Trump was not the only backer of the former president to go after Hogan.
Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita wrote in response to his post ‘You just ended your campaign.’
Republicans are looking to reclaim the Senate this fall from Democrats who currently hold a one seat majority. The GOP has a friendly election map to help them get there, but the addition of Hogan running in Maryland upped their chances.
Hogan was a popular GOP governor in the blue state. Polls show him entrance into the race to replace retiring Democratic Senator Ben Cardin made it competitive in a state that would otherwise be a safe seat for Democrats.