When former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan won the GOP nomination in the state’s 2024 U.S. Senate race, some Democratic strategists were quick to sound the alarm. Hogan is a non-MAGA conservative and a Donald Trump critic who has a history of winning statewide races in a deep blue state that President Joe Biden carried by 33 percent in 2020. And he was a popular two-term governor, enjoying a 77 percent approval rating in a Gonzales poll conducted in early 2023. At a time when Democrats are worried about keeping their small U.S. Senate majority, Hogan’s nomination was not good news for their party —…