{"id":1908944,"date":"2023-04-02T20:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T00:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-gop-governor-announces-presidential-bid-calls-on-trump-to-drop-out\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T20:12:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T00:12:16","slug":"former-gop-governor-announces-presidential-bid-calls-on-trump-to-drop-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-gop-governor-announces-presidential-bid-calls-on-trump-to-drop-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Former GOP Governor Announces Presidential Bid, Calls On Trump To Drop Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-gop-governor-announces-presidential-bid-calls-on-trump-to-drop-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1908944&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Asa Hutchinson, the ex-governor of Arkansas and a former Republican, has announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential nomination for the GOP. Hutchinson, a vocal critic of former president Donald Trump, called for his withdrawal from the race while being interviewed by Jonathan Karl on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d. Hutchinson had previously attended Iowa three times this year, a critical state for candidate selection. Hutchinson\u2019s entry into the race comes after Nikki Haley, another ex-governor, declared her bid to stop Trump\u2019s Republican nomination. <\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson stated that he wants to appeal to the best of America to become a leader, not to worst instincts, adding that he will formally announce his candidacy later this month in Bentonville, Arkansas. He also affirmed that if he wins, he would advocate \u201cconsistent conservatism,\u201d optimism, and common sense as his style of leadership. <\/p>\n<p>When asked about Donald Trump\u2019s involvement in the race, Hutchinson replied in the negative, stating that Trump should concentrate instead on his due process:<br \/>\n\u201cI mean, first of all, the office is more important than any individual person, and so for the sake of the office of the presidency, I do think that\u2019s too much of a sideshow and distraction, and he needs to concentrate on his due process, and there is a presumption of innocence,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike other Republican candidates, who have chosen to take a different tact in response to Trump\u2019s potential indictment, Hutchinson does not think a candidate has to clear the passage while under investigation. Instead, he believes a candidate should only step down after being charged with criminal activity. <\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson is a former prosecutor and has said that the current indictment against Trump is a matter that must follow due process, but he had previously recommended Trump step aside if he was indicted. Hutchinson had also claimed that January 6th\u2019s controversy had disqualified Trump from being the Republican nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asa Hutchinson, the former Republican governor of Arkansas, has announced that he is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination \u2013 and called on former President Donald Trump to drop out of the race.\u00a0 Hutchinson, an outspoken critic of Trump, made the announcement during an interview broadcast Sunday with ABC \u201cThis Week\u201d host Jonathan Karl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1908945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4156,7564,3755,5053,6203,4173,3849,3634],"class_list":["post-1908944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-announces","tag-bid","tag-calls","tag-drop","tag-gop","tag-governor","tag-presidential","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}