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Some have also described it as a rare opportunity for governors from opposing parties to build personal relationships they might not otherwise have the time or setting to develop. Asa Hutchinson, the former Republican governor of Arkansas who briefly challenged Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, recalled being seated one year with then–Rhode Island Gov Gina Raimondo and getting to know her family.
In brief remarks, Trump kept the tone light and joked that state leaders “look in that mirror and say, I should be president, not him.” Though he avoided singling out any Democrat by name, the President did take aim at two Democratic-led states while discussing a sewage spill in the Potomac River near Washington.
