Fox News' Brit Hume claims Lara Trump has made a 'stupid' campaign move that could COST Republicans

Fox News' Brit Hume has accused Lara Trump of 'political malpractice' for blasting a Republican Senate candidate for not being loyal to her father-in-law Donald Trump.

The Republican National Committee co-chair went after former Maryland Republican Governor and Senate candidate Larry Hogan for saying Americans should 'respect' the verdict in the hush money trial.

Most Republicans claimed Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records after a 'political' trial. 

But Hogan went against the rest of his party and sparked threats from within the GOP that they would pull support from his 2024 Senate campaign.  

But Hume, Fox News' chief political analyst, said Republicans going after their own candidates was a 'political malpractice.' 

'Maryland is a very blue state,' said Hume. 'And Larry Hogan, who remained popular as a Republican governor and remains that way to this day, is giving the Republican party the best chance it's had in a long time to elect a Republican to the Senate.'

'The Lara Trumps of the world ought to be saying 'please Mr. Hogan, please Governor Hogan, you do whatever you have to do to get elected, and some of the things you say and you believe in don't agree with what I think, that's OK, do what you have to do,' Hume said.

Hume went on 'that's how politics is played by smart people.'

He warned the Trump team could be repeating the same mistake it made in 2020 when the ex-president 'gummed up the works'  in Georgia, and Republicans lost the Senate seat there.

After the historic verdict in the Trump trial was handed down, Hogan wrote on X: 'Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process.'

'At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders — regardless of party— must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship,' he went on. 'We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law.'

Lara Trump and other members of the Trump campaign did not take kindly to his response.

When asked about his post during an appearance on CNN, Lara Trump said she not only did she not support it, but suggested the party was willing to pull support from a GOP candidate who could help the party flip the Senate for Republicans.

'He doesn't deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican party at this point, and quite frankly anybody in America if that's the way you feel,' she said.

'We of course want to win as a party, but that is a shame, and I think he should have thought long and hard before he said that publicly,' she continued when pressed over whether it was worth conceding a seat to Democrats.

Lara Trump was not the only backer of the former president to go after Hogan. 

Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita wrote in response to his post 'You just ended your campaign.'

Republicans are looking to reclaim the Senate this fall from Democrats who currently hold a one seat majority. The GOP has a friendly election map to help them get there, but the addition of Hogan running in Maryland upped their chances.

Hogan was a popular GOP governor in the blue state. Polls show him entrance into the race to replace retiring Democratic Senator Ben Cardin made it competitive in a state that would otherwise be a safe seat for Democrats.