It’s been decades since a former governor has gone on to become president of the United States, but Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday he’d like to see that change, as he wants his fellow Republicans to pick a governor as their nominee in 2024 because governors work to “get stuff done.”
“Yeah, I prefer governors. That’s the easy call for me,” Cox told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he appeared with Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J. He added he’d rather see a governor take the White House “any day of the week” over a member of Congress.
And when show host Chuck Todd asked him about a wide number of GOP governors and former governors who could announce campaigns, including Govs. Chris Sununu, New Hampshire; Ron DeSantis, Florida; and Kristi Noem, South Dakota, as well as former Govs. Asa Hutchinson, of Arkansas, and Nikki Haley, South Carolina, Cox said they are all “fantastic.”
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