Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson on Sunday announced that he will be running for the Republican nomination for president in a pre-taped segment for ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.”
Hutchinson took to Twitter and released a statement following Alvin Bragg’s indictment of President Trump, saying in part, “Donald Trump should not be the next President.”
Hutchinson is an attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 46th governor of Arkansas from 2015 to 2023.
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A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. attorney for the Fort Smith-based Western District of Arkansas from 1982 to 1985, U.S. representative for Arkansas’s 3rd congressional district from 1997 to 2001, administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration from 2001 to 2003, and the first undersecretary for border and transportation security at the United States Department of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005.
While he was governor, Hutchinson signed legislation supporting illegal immigrants. Hutchinson signed legislation to give in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants in Arkansas.
Hutchinson also vetoed legislation that would have prohibited doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to minors. Tucker Carlson told Hutchinson in an interview, “you’ve come out publicly as pro-choice on the question of chemical castration of children.”
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Hutchinson raised taxes on motorists in Arkansas in 2019 with an additional 3 cent levy per gallon of gas and an additional 6 cent levy per gallon of diesel.
He also vetoed a bill that would have invalidated federal gun control restrictions after the bill overwhelmingly passed the Arkansas House and Senate.
Hutchinson was born in Rogers, Arkansas, to Asa Hutchinson Sr. and Mary Jane Hutchinson. He graduated from Springdale High School in 1968 and Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1972. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1975.
After law school, Hutchinson practiced law in Rogers and served as a deputy prosecuting attorney in Benton County. He was elected U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas in 1982. In 1985, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. He served in that position until 1997.
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In 1997, Hutchinson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas’s 3rd congressional district. He served in the House of Representatives until 2001. In 2001, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. He served in that position until 2003. In 2003, he was appointed by President Bush to serve as the first undersecretary for border and transportation security at the United States Department of Homeland Security. He served in that position until 2005.
In 2014, Hutchinson was elected governor of Arkansas. He was re-elected in 2018.
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