Senate Republicans are coming to the aid of former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and fully embracing the Senate GOP candidate despite his escalating tensions with allies of former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Hogan drew fury from those close to Trump last week for urging people to “respect the verdict” shortly before a Manhattan jury convicted the former president on 34 felony counts in his hush money trial.

Team Trump declared Hogan politically dead, and the anti-Trump centrist Republican could now be boxed out from receiving Republican National Committee support. But Senate Republicans have their sights on something greater: a chamber majority that includes Hogan.

“Larry Hogan is running for the United States Senate in Maryland — not in Mississippi,” Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), chairman of Senate GOP’s campaign arm, told the Washington Examiner.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he supports “all the Republican candidates,” including Hogan.

“What I think is we need more Republican members of the Senate, and whether you’re Mike Lee or whether you’re Susan Collins, we need more Republicans in order to set the agenda,” McConnell said.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who’s vying to replace McConnell as Senate Republican leader, also told the Washington Examiner he’s firmly behind Hogan.

“I think there’s a difference between respecting the jury’s role … and what the court did,” Cornyn said. “I do think it’s important to keep in mind [Hogan] could be the 51st senator, and it’s going to be important to the new Trump administration and all of us to have the majority.”

A Hogan victory, or a win in any other battleground state, would give Republicans the Senate majority.

Even Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who is jockeying to be Trump’s running mate, gave Hogan some slack. He characterized Hogan’s response as a “big mistake” that irked both sides of the aisle but said he wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to expand the GOP’s power.

“It’s almost like he said something that was designed to alienate both the Republican base and Democratic voters,” Vance told the Washington Examiner. “But look, my basic view on Larry is he’s running in Maryland. He’s going to say a lot of things that piss me off, that I disagree with. I’d still rather he wins than the other guy.”

Hogan is facing Democratic nominee Angela Alsobrooks, the executive of Prince George’s County.

The Hogan campaign declined to comment.

Hogan’s more neutral stance to Trump’s guilty verdict stood in stark contrast to the GOP’s theme that it was a “rigged” political process.

He was met with swift rebuke last week from Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita, who suggested Hogan sealed his own political fate. The former two-term governor will need all the GOP voters he can muster while simultaneously winning over enough independents and centrist Democrats in order to flip the blue state.

“You just ended your campaign,” LaCivita responded to Hogan on social media.

RNC Co-Chairwoman Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, assailed Hogan’s response to the verdict as “ridiculous” and refused to commit to backing him with resources in the competitive race. She dodged by saying she would need to circle back on the “specifics monetarily.”

“I think anybody who’s not speaking up in the face of something that should never have seen the light of day, a trial that would never have been brought against any other person aside from Donald Trump, doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone,” Lara Trump said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “[Hogan] doesn’t deserve the respect of anyone in the Republican Party at this point and, quite frankly, anybody in America.”

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Putting him at further odds with the national party, Hogan will not attend the Republican National Convention next month in Milwaukee. Hogan also skipped the event in 2016 and 2020.

“The election is going to be decided here in Maryland. It’s not going to be decided to Milwaukee,” a Hogan campaign adviser, who declined to be named, recently told reporters. “We can do a lot more campaigning in Dundalk that we can in Minneapolis or St. Paul.”