CHEVY CHASE, Maryland — Democrats in the Old Line State are digging in their heels that Republican Senate hopeful Larry Hogan, the former two-term governor, is nothing but a self-described centrist secretly draped in MAGA gear.

As Republicans gathered in Milwaukee for the final day of their party convention on Thursday, Maryland Democrats assembled reporters hundreds of miles away in an affluent suburb of Washington to counter-program: Hogan may not be in Wisconsin with the rest of his party, but he’s “on red team.”