Asa Hutchinson (R) has announced his candidacy for president, but the former Arkansas governor faces an uphill battle against GOP frontrunners former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Hutchinson, 72, represents a niche corner of politics, positioning himself as a traditional conservative alternative to Trump, embracing right-wing social causes while urging a return to the neoconservative foreign policy of the pre-Trump years. He was one of the rare prominent Republicans to condemn Trump for the Jan. 6 riot vehemently and has gained headlines for his steadfast opposition to the former president.
His initial campaign for Arkansas governor in 2006 failed, but his second campaign in 2014 succeeded. In his tenure as governor from 2015-2023, Hutchinson sported a mostly conservative record, instituting tax cuts, enacting an abortion ban that would take hold if Roe v Wade was overruled, pushing back against COVID-19 vaccination requirements, and some restrictions on transgender youth in sports.
"I wanted to say to my Republican friends and colleagues that we've got to rethink our engagement in every aspect of the cultural wars. The Republican Party that I grew up with believed in a restrained government that did not jump in the middle of every issue," he said in an interview with NPR."And, in this case, it is a very sensitive matter that involves parents and it involves physicians.
Hutchinson became increasingly critical of the former president a few months after the end of Trump's presidency and has accused him of dividing the party. In recent months, he said that Trump's behavior on Jan. 6 was"disqualifying" and that his winning the Republican nomination in 2024 would be the"worst scenario."
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