Donald Trump-backed state legislator Dan Cox has won the Republican nomination for governor, defeating Kelly Schulz, a former state official who was endorsed by current Governor Larry Hogan – a Trump critic.Hogan, a moderate Republican, won two gubernatorial terms in Maryland, a Democratic-leaning state that favoured President Joe Biden over Trump by more than 33 percentage points in the 2020 elections.Many commentators predicted that Cox’s nomination on Tuesday will be a blow to Republicans’ hopes of retaining the governorship in Maryland because of his far-right views, including backing Trump’s false election fraud allegations.
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