Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson steered clear of culture war issues in his 2024 campaign launch speech on Wednesday, setting himself up as a candidate who will focus instead on reining in rampant spending in Washington and aggressively defending American interests abroad.
In a wide-ranging speech from Bentonville, Ark., on Wednesday, Hutchinson separated himself from other 2024 candidates and likely contenders with what went unsaid. Unlike Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy, Hutchinson did not touch on gender ideology, which has emerged as a major issue in the 2024 race and is an area where the former governor falls to the left of the rest of the Republican field.
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