ASA JUMPS IN: Former Arkansas Governor Launches White House Bid

Another contender is in for 2024.

According to a report from Fox News, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has officially announced his White House run, joining a growing field of GOP candidates.

“In this campaign for president, I stand alone in terms of my experience, record, and leadership,” Hutchinson said in prepared remarks shared with Fox News Digital. “From Congress to DEA to Homeland Security, I have served our country in times of crisis. As governor of Arkansas, we cut taxes and created record surpluses.”

From Fox News:

Hutchinson outlined his credentials as a conservative whose “mettle has been tested” over his decades of political service.

A former federal attorney turned two-term congressman who served as Drug Enforcement Administration administrator and Department of Homeland Security undersecretary during then-President George W. Bush’s administration, Hutchinson has long showcased that he’s a “consistent conservative.”

Hutchinson, who steered the National Governors Association last year, had been mulling a 2024 White House run for months. He told Fox News Digital interview last summer that he wanted a role in helping to shape the future of the GOP and “that might lead to a presidential campaign down the road.”

Hutchinson left office in Arkansas in January due to term limits, and was succeeded by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary during then-President Trump’s administration and the daughter of former longtime Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

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Asked how he could compete with bigger names larger war chests, such as Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who’s seriously mulling a White House run, Hutchinson sad in a Fox News digital interview that “hard work is a big part of it and you increase name identification by being out in the communities, by raising money, being on the television and communicate in every which medium which you can. So that will happen over the course of time. The debates are an important part of the ability to get your message out as well”

“I’m not worried about where we are now. This is a long runway. We’ve got time to build the name identification and I look forward to the opportunity to engage in retail politics that means so much here in Iowa,” he emphasized.

More over at Fox News:

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