“I’m not afraid to get up when I disagree,” Neil Cavuto told host Neil. “I don’t think every single Republican has to walk together and agree 100 percent of the time. I don’t think other people are afraid to stand up and explain them when they don’t agree,” he said.
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“I’m president of the National Governors Association,” he added. “So my job as a Democratic and Republican governor across America is to stand up and back when we feel we want more or when we think the president is on the right track. And I thank you and congratulate you when they” do something that we think is useful.”
Hogan admitted to Cavuto that he had not spoken to Trump “directly” for some time, and revealed that the quotes between him and the president “were a little cold those days at a non-public point because he doesn’t like anyone to provide him with some kind of constructive criticism.”
When Cavuto turned to Hogan’s complaint about Republican leadership under Trump, the governor said he was looking for a “bigger party that sought to talk and have a more positive vision for the future, achieving and expanding that store.”
“My concern,” Hogan added, “is that the president is doing a very smart task in addressing the base component. It is not successful in the electorate, we want to win the election again in the future.”
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“Listen, at some point, Donald Trump will be the president and will be the party leader,” Hogan said after Cavuto warned him that being “an option for Trump’s leadership style” might be opposed to him.
“The component will seriously look at itself and the direction we’re going to take,” the governor said. “I don’t know which direction it’s going to go, however, I need to be part of the discussion. I need to communicate about the return to some of our classic Republican roots and the days when Ronald Reagan painted in the hallway with [former House Speaker] O’Neill Council and do things, how we beat the independents and Democrats and beat the women of the suburbs and things we no longer do.”