Photo by Walter Burns
Photo by Walter Burns.

Last year, New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie came to Maryland several times to support Larry Hoganโ€™s underdog campaign for governor of Maryland as well as to imagine political rival Martin Oโ€™Malley as a โ€œbig loser.โ€

Heโ€™s back in the state today to make โ€œan announcement related to his presidential campaign.โ€  Heโ€™ll be stopping by the Annapolis Double T Diner. (Mmmmm, Double T.)

Hogan and Christie are, by all appearances, political best buds. Christie has been sporting a โ€œHogan Strongโ€ bracelet ever since the Maryland governor publicly announced his cancer diagnosis.

Sources told NBC News that Hogan will be endorsing Christie in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.