Hutchinson continues to argue he needs to stay in the race, while Trump is a "weak candidate"
Long-shot GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson on Sunday argued that it’s important for him to stay in the race to “alert people that we can't mislead our voters” about the January 6 insurrection while also contending that Donald Trump is a “weak candidate.”
Trump “has redefined the Republican Party and not in a good way," Hutchinson said. "What I'm trying to do is draw attention to the fact that Donald Trump is a weak candidate for us going into the general election,” Hutchinson said on CBS’s "Face the Nation."
Hutchinson said it's "critically important" not to “mislead our voters and say January 6 was somehow a patriotic act. It was an attack on our Capitol (and) the rule of law in Congress."
Trump has used anti-immigrant rhetoric as he seeks another term, telling supporters that undocumented migrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country. Hutchinson, when asked why Trump's comments are resonating with GOP voters, said it’s because “there's incredible concern about the border.” But Hutchinson said that he would not use such "inflammatory language."
Hutchinson said he’d rather discuss immigration “in terms of what we need to do versus the pejorative rhetoric that really misleads people and hurts people
