“He’s not, for my part, mentally steady,” Hogan mentioned Wednesday on WGMD radio, primarily based on Maryland’s Jap Shore. “He needed to hold my good friend, Mike Pence, and took three busloads of individuals to the Capitol.”
Cox, a Republican delegate from Frederick, handily defeated Hogan-endorsed candidate Kelly Schulz final month in a major largely considered as a proxy conflict between Hogan, who has presidential ambitions, and former president Donald Trump, who endorsed Cox.
In January 2021, Cox tweeted that he was organizing buses to the “Cease the Steal” rally on Jan. 6. Throughout the rebellion, he tweeted that Vice President Mike Pence was “a traitor,” although he later apologized for his language whereas going through a legislative ethics inquiry.