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Why this former Republican presidential candidate is at the Democrats’ 2024 convention

by admin August 23, 2024
August 23, 2024
Why this former Republican presidential candidate is at the Democrats’ 2024 convention

CHICAGO – It’s a sight you wouldn’t expect to see.

A longtime Republican who ran for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination making the rounds at the Democratic National Convention.

But that’s the case for former two-term Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.

‘I’m doing media. I’m not here to endorse the Democratic nominee,’ Hutchison said in an interview this week with Fox News Digital. ‘This is my first Democratic convention.’

But Hutchinson, who waged an unsuccessful long-shot bid last year for the Republican nomination, shared, ‘I did go on the floor to see the Arkansas Democratic delegation here, and I want you to know that lightning didn’t strike and so everybody was safe.’

Asked if he felt out of place among a sea of Democrats, Hutchinson said ‘a little bit but at the same time, this is well reflective of American democracy that I’m greeted with a friendly fashion… This is a good part of politics that you can disagree but still be here and be welcomed.’

The former governor remains a very vocal GOP critic of former President Trump, who crushed Hutchinson and the rest of the field of challengers to cruise to the party’s nomination. 

Asked how he’ll cast his ballot in the presidential election, Hutchinson said he’s going to ‘write in a candidate, a good Republican candidate. It’s important to me to be a Republican and support the Republican cause.’

But he added, ‘We need to define it differently than Donald Trump and the rule of law is important to me. I said on the debate stage I’m not going to vote for a convicted felon. That still holds true.’

Since Vice President Kamala Harris a month ago replaced President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, Trump has repeatedly slammed the vice president as a far-left politician.

Hutchinson, pointing to a controversial plan by Harris to ban price gouging, said that in order to appeal to independent voters and dissatisfied Republicans, the vice president needs ‘to persuade them [voters] that her economic policy is not so far left and the argument about price controls is doing damage to her.

‘She needs to make clear that when she talks about her economic policy it’s a fight against price gouging, which attorneys general do all across America, and not price controls. She needs to make that clear either in her convention speech or elsewhere.’

He emphasized that ‘if you want to get independents, if you want to get swing voters and even some Republicans, you’ve got to show an economic policy that makes sense for America and doesn’t scare people.’

Hutchinson, a former federal prosecutor who later served in Congress and in Cabinet-level positions in President George W. Bush’s administration, dropped out of the White House race in January, the day after he finished a distant sixth in the Iowa caucuses.

Asked whether there’s another political chapter in his long career, he said, ‘I hope so.’

‘But right now I really want to teach. I’ll be teaching at the University of Arkansas Law School next semester. I’ll be doing some things on college campuses beyond that,’ he shared. ‘We’ll see what happens in the future.’

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