Maryland Democrats can breathe a sigh of relief after the blue state’s popular former two-term Republican governor, Larry Hogan, announced Tuesday he would not mount a challenge to Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) this fall.

Hogan, who served as governor between 2015 and 2023 and lost a high-profile Senate bid in 2024, announced via op-ed in the Baltimore Sun that his days in politics were over.