2012 Election

University faculty and alumni who work as political consultants said that Daniels’ decision, announced on Saturday night, to not seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012 reflected a genuine concern by his family about the turbulence of a national campaign. Daniels was considered by many to be a frontrunner for the nomination.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels ’71 announced in an email to supporters on Saturday that he would not seek the U.S. presidency in 2012.

Mercer county Clerk Paula Sollami Covello has urged Gov. Chris Christie to submit a proposal to make Princeton home to a 2012 presidential or vice-presidential debate in the time leading up to the November election.

After Mitch Daniels ’71 was arrested, indicted and convicted on charges of drug use as an undergraduate in May 1970, he said that he thought his aspiring political career was doomed. “Any goal I might have had for competing for public office were shot,” he told The Daily Princetonian in September 1988.