Asa Hutchinson, the former two-term Republican governor of Arkansas, will formally launch his campaign for president today with a kickoff in his hometown of Bentonville.
Asa Hutchinson, the former two-term Republican governor of Arkansas, will formally launch his campaign for president Wednesday with a kickoff in his hometown of Bentonville.
The 72-year-old has said Trump should step aside because his legal troubles, including criminal charges in New York, are a distraction. And while Trump has fixated his campaign messages around his false claims about the 2020 election he lost, Hutchinson has said voters need a candidate who is not focused on the past.
His announcement Wednesday will be in the tree-lined town square of Bentonville, the birthplace of Walmart. The city of nearly 57,000 people in the northwest part of the state is where Hutchinson first served as a city attorney starting in 1977 and where he first ran for office with an unsuccessful bid for local prosecutor.The former governor told The Associated Press that he plans to introduce himself to the country on Wednesday and announce some policy initiatives.
He was elected to the U.S. House in 1996, winning election to a seat his older brother, Tim, had held for two terms. He was elected governor in 2014 and while in office signed a series of income tax cuts and restrictions on abortion, including an outright ban on the procedure that became effective when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Hutchinson later said he wished that the measure had included exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, but didn't push for lawmakers to add those exemptions after the court ruling.
"He was a big spender," Hutchinson said."He's one of the reasons that we added to our national debt and our deficit."
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