

Larry Hogan, former governor of Maryland, did not vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020. What I am is focused on is bringing everybody together.” 6 Capitol riot as a “ blight on our democracy.” Asked if he agreed with Winsome Earle-Sears, Virginia’s Republican lieutenant governor, who deplored the former president’s “racist” comments about Trump administration Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chow and denounced him as a “liability” to the GOP, Youngkin (mocked by Trump as “ Young Kin… Sounds Chinese doesn’t it?”), dodged: “I haven’t made comments about that right now. And it’s premature to get into what might happen in 2024.” Constitution in order to overturn the 2020 election, as “ tearing at the fabric of our democracy.” This month, Hutchinson castigated Trump’s promise of “retribution” against Democrats in a second term as an appeal “ to the angry mob.”īut Hutchinson did not rule out backing Trump if he became the Republican nominee in 2024: “ I want to see what the alternatives are. He blasted Trump’s call for terminating parts of the U.S. Last year, Hutchinson told reporters he would not support Trump for re-election in 2024.

6, he “disqualified himself” from seeking another term in the White House. Asa Hutchinson has maintained that because Trump was “ politically and morally responsible” for Jan. 6, President Trump’s role in it, and accountability.Īrkansas Gov. It doesn’t matter what banner you’re flying under - the violence is wrong, the rioting and disorder is wrong.” Since then, apart from decrying the dissemination by the “D.C.-New York media” of “narratives that are negative,” DeSantis has exercised his right to remain silent about Jan. 7, 2021, Florida governor Ron DeSantis called the assault on the Capitol “totally unacceptable and those folks need to be held accountable.

She emphasized the need for a “new generation of leadership,” and did not mention the former president. In February, 2023, Haley announced her candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination. I don’t want us to go back to the days before Trump.” And she indicated she would not run for president in 2024 if Trump was a candidate. Ambassador, indicated that Trump “would be judged harshly by history.” Asked how he should be held accountable, she said he was so isolated and had “fallen so far” he would no longer “be in the picture.” Several months later, Haley maintained, “We need him in the Republican Party. After the assault on the Capitol, Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and U.N.
