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Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson formally launches his campaign for president on Wednesday in his hometown of Bentonville. "It reflects me," he told ABC News. BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican who says his party should not be looking in the rearview mirror, is taking a little bit of a look back this week as he formally kicks off his campaign for the White House on Wednesday from his hometown. "It's really exciting to have it in Bentonville," Hutchinson said in an interview with ABC News on Tuesday. "First of all, it reflects me." It was 37 years ago, outside the same county courthouse where Hutchinson had tried his earliest cases as an attorney, that he announced his first campaign for statewide office. It's where, in the 1970s, he put in the town's first FM radio station, and where the now 72-year-old raised his four children. To mark the campaign kickoff , Hutchinson has sprinkled bits of his herita...

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson formally launched his campaign for president on Wednesday in his hometown of Bentonville. "It reflects me," he told ABC News. BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Former Arkansas GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson, on Wednesday formally announced he's running for the White House -- going back to his hometown of Bentonville to kick off his campaign . "I have been a consistent conservative through my time as leader of the party -- in the United States Congress and as governor. And now, I bring that same vigor to another fight and that battle is for the future of our country and the soul of our party," he told supporters. "Today, I am announcing that I am a candidate for president of the United States." "In this campaign for president, I stand alone in terms of my experience, my record, and leadership," he said, echoing remarks from earlier this month when he first revealed he was running on ABC's "This Week." Former Arka...