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Hutchinson Kicks Off GOP 2024 Primary with Call for Trump to Step Down

by Lucas Garcia
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Asa Hutchinson, who was the Governor of Arkansas for two terms, said he will join the race to be the Republican President. This happened shortly after former President Donald Trump got charged by a court in New York.

Hutchinson suggested Trump should not run for President anymore, because he believes that “the Presidency is more important than any individual.”

Hutchinson recently announced his candidacy on a TV show called “This Week”. He said that he is running in the election because he feels like he will be great for America and its future. Additionally, Hutchinson believes that people want leaders who help make America a better place, not those who focus on things that are bad.

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has announced that he is running for president as a Republican. He is the first person to do so since President Trump was charged with something illegal, which never happened to another U.S. president in history before. Many people are interested to see how other Republicans will react to this news as they may be scared of voting out Trump or supporting someone who criticized him – including Maryland’s former governor Larry Hogan, who decided against running for the same reason.

Hutchinson said in an interview that it is important for people to have someone who can lead them and not to just follow what happened before. He believes that you don’t need to be loud and aggressive, but instead you should simply stay honest so you can offer your best qualities.

President Trump has strong support among Republican voters, even though he has been accused of a crime in New York. Everyone in the party is standing by him, except Governor Hutchinson who disagrees with them.

Trump and other Republicans have joined the election race. These include former U.N Ambassador Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (who is predicted to enter during summer) plus Mike Pompeo (a former Secretary of State), Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina and Vice President Mike Pence – all of whom are considering running for election too.

Hutchinson said he believes he stands out from the others by sharing his values and ideas for the nation. He showed this recently by how he responded to President Donald Trump’s indictment and the way forward for the country and their political party.

On April 26th, Hutchinson will be officially launching his elections campaign in Bentonville, Arkansas – which is also home to Walmart Headquarters. He’ll also be campaigning in Iowa, Indiana, and Kentucky in the upcoming weeks.

He explained that he would do a good job of campaigning for votes in places like Iowa where people chat with potential voters at diners. He also mentioned that he would be able to fund his campaign, but not like billionaires like Donald Trump.

Former Governor and 72-year-old Hutchinson left his job earlier this year. Lately, he’s been heavily criticizing Donald Trump, saying that if he runs for president again in 2024 it will be bad news for Republicans and a big boost for Biden’s campaign.

The former governor, who was not allowed to stay in office anymore due to a rule limiting how long someone can be in that role, has been an important figure in Arkansas politics since the 1980s. This is when the state mostly voted for Democratic candidates. He had also worked for the government before – he was one of the people prosecuting President Bill Clinton during his impeachment hearing.

Hutchinson previously worked as the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) while under President George W. Bush and then became an Undersecretary of Department of Homeland Security.

When Governor Hutchinson was in charge, he made it so people had to pay less taxes because of the extra money that the state had. He then signed some laws that said it wasn’t allowed to have abortions anymore even though last year, the Supreme Court said that it should be legal. The Governor said he was sorry that these laws didn’t make an exception for rape or incest cases.

Last year, Governor Hutchinson made people angry when he decided not to approve a law that would stop kids from getting medical help for gender changes. The Legislature in Arkansas (which is mostly made up of Republican people) said he had to accept this law and it got passed despite his decision. But then a judge ruled against the law, so it’s not happening yet.

President Trump said that Arkansas’ former Governor,Asa Hutchinson, was not a real Republican because he vetoed a law that people wanted to pass. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is now running to be the new governor in Arkansas, said she would have signed the controversial legislation. However, Asa Hutchinson had already signed laws limiting transgender youth and felt this ban went too far even though it only covered surgery options. He still supported Sanders’ campaign for governor.

Bernie Sanders has not chosen who to support for President in 2024 yet. Even though there have been some disagreements with her predecessor, she hasn’t said anything bad about him directly.

Since she became Governor, the lady has put a law in place to stop kids from getting treatment that could help with gender identity issues. She also ended five different discussions which focused on figuring out how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, she wants her state to concentrate more on other health complications.

Although he liked some of the things Trump was doing, Hutchinson has started saying bad stuff about him. He thinks Trump’s lies about how he lost the election ruined America and made us go against parts of our Constitution.

Mr. Hutchinson criticized President Trump for hanging out with a white nationalist leader (Nick Fuentes) and the rapper Ye, who said nice things about Adolf Hitler and had hateful ideas towards Jewish people. Mr. Hutchinson is different from them because he used to be a lawyer in Arkansas back in the 1980s that helped put white supremacists in jail.

Governor Hutchinson was not in favor of the federal health care law. But he wanted to keep Arkansas’ version of the healthcare policy and introduce a work requirement for it. Unfortunately, this rule got blocked by a judge. During the COVID-19 outbreak, Governor Hutchinson did his best to help people get the correct information on the virus by getting out there and holding public town halls throughout Arkansas to encourage people to get vaccinated against the illness.

In 2017, Governor Hutchinson made people very angry when he ordered eight executions over a two-week period, before the state’s lethal injection drugs expired. They ended up carrying out four of them.

Governor Hutchinson is known for talking and discussing his policies using charts and graphs during his news conferences at the Capitol instead of arguing with people on Twitter. Every Sunday morning, he posts Bible verses instead.

Michelle L. Price, a writer from the Associated Press in New York, helped write this report.

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