Ex-Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson Joins 2024 Presidential Race: I’m the ‘Non-Trump’ Candidate

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson will run for president in 2024, he told ABC News on Sunday.

“I’m going to run for president of the United States,” Hutchinson told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on This Week. “While the formal announcement will be later in April, in Bentonville [Arkansas], I want to make it clear to you, Jonathan, I am going to be running.”

The Sunday announcement comes months after Hutchinson, who was succeeded by Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, floated the idea during Sunday show appearances and interviews. He told Karl he was compelled to run after touring the U.S. over the last six months and noticing that “people want leaders that appeal to the best of America, and not simply appeal to our worst instincts.”

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