Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has made it his mission to wrestle the Republican Party away from Donald Trump but can't escape the former president's shadow.
“I think the time for the self-loathing lovable loser Republican is over,” said Hogan Gidley, who served as a deputy press secretary in the Trump White House and cut his political teeth in Arkansas politics. “I think Asa oftentimes is fine playing the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism, and when you are trying to run a national race for president you have to have at the very least a hook, politically.
“Forget charisma, or relatability, or strength, there is no real big agenda he can point to that resonates with the conservative base,” Mr. Gidley said. “Asa, it seems, is trying to carve out an entirely separate lane of ‘I don’t like the former president, I don’t like many of his policies, so I am just going to kind of drive this busted up beaten hooptie down the road and hope voters come along and pimp my ride.
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